This is the 0.2 release of Linux kernel Cluster Framework. What is LKCF: ----------- LKCF's aim is to provide a transport independent cluster communication framework within the kernel. This enables the developers to write kernel based cluster services without being worried about communication transport. It also support RPC style programming. That means to write kernel service one need to write the service definition file (<service>.svc>) and the implementation API. LKCF framework will generate all the registration routines and the marshaling code. Also it takes care of forwarding the SIGNALs across different nodes.The particular service can be called from any node specifying the node at which this particular service need to be executed. All the underlying management interface is taken care by the LKCF. What transport are supported as of today: --------------------------------------- IPV4 Infiniband verbs/RDMA. Project Documentation: --------------------- http://ci-linux.sourceforge.net/ Project git repository: --------------------------- http://git.openssi.org/~kvaneesh/gitweb.cgi?p=ci-to-linus.git;a=summary The patches can be found at http://git.openssi.org/~kvaneesh/ics_patches/lkcf-0.2/ and include 0001-Internode-communication-subsystem-for-Linux.txt 0002-ICS-over-Infiniband-verbs-work-in-progress.txt 0003-Token-facility-needed-for-cluster-based-synchronization.txt 0004-A-simple-test-case-for-ICS.txt The important changes with the release is the support of infiniband interconnect. The changes are originally from stan smith with further cleanup and fixes from me. The patches are on top of git SHA1 ef7d1b244fa6c94fb76d5f787b8629df64ea4046 of the linus tree. -aneesh -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
