Re: [ANNOUNCE] Cooperative Linux

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Karim Yaghmour wrote:

> So, for example, Xen assumes that all OSes are going to use the same
> devices for I/O: same disk, same NIC, etc. It therefore implements lots
> of virtual devices for these.

Consolidation means more efficient hardware use ...

> Wouldn't it be just better to reuse the existing work on the hotplug
> hardware (hotplug CPU, hotplug memory, etc.) to have the kernels
> get/return hardware resources to the nanokernel?

That means a loss of flexibility.  Furthermore, these hotplug
patches don't seem ready yet.

Rik
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