remote system call

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Nitin Varyani <varyani.nitin1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>       I want to migrate user context of a process to a remote machine
> (i.e. registers, code, data, virtual memory and program counter) and when
> it makes a system call or file i/o, I want to send that request to its home
> node.
>
> That is, the user process executing at remote node will copy desired
> system call number to %eax of home node and will execute 'int 0x80'. This
> will generate interrupt 0x80 which should be sent to home node and an
> interrupt service routine at home node will be called. This routine will
> execute in ring 0 of home node.
>
> A portion of process context which is system dependent has to be kept at
> the home node.
>
> That is, link to open files and link to kernel stack.
>
> For eg: the following portion of the task_struct has to be kept at home
> node
> /* filesystem information */
>     struct fs_struct *fs;
> /* open file information */
>     struct files_struct *files;
>
>
>
> Is it feasible? Can someone show some more light into it?
>
> Nitin
>
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Feasible, yes.

Try to check the source code of MOSIX/OpenMosix or OpenSSI.

Kerrighed is another project which done similar thing too.


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Mulyadi Santosa
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