Re: Kernel hot-swap using Kexec, BProc and CC/SMP Clusters.

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 13:17:57 EST

On Mon, 05 May 2003 12:00:15 MDT, Steven Cole said:

> Perhaps two uptimes could be kept. The current concept of uptime would
> remain as is, analogous to the reign of a king (the current kernel), and
> a new integrated uptime would be analogous to the life of a dynasty. The
> dynasty uptime would be one of the many things the new kernel learned
> about on booting. This new dynasty uptime could become quite long if
> everything keeps on ticking.

Make sure you handle the case of a dynasty that starts on a 2.7.13 kernel
and is finally deposed by a power failure in 2.7.39.


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed May 07 2003 - 22:00:22 EST