Re: Process Migration on Linux - Impossible?
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 1 Oct 1997 23:18:46 +0100 (BST)
> You could even use IPv6 and have a unique IP address for every process
> which uses the network and is a candidate for migration (many things such
> as NFS client daemons are not candidates for migration...).
If you take the view of files and memory as objects then the NFS client
can move. In fact if most of the NFS I/O for a given remote host is from
a specific node why not move [1]
[1] Obvious answer: because unless we can migrate sockets then there will
be a socket receive event occuring remotely each time....