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Mosix.



Following Moshe Bar lecture on Friday:
	1) 
It was important for Moshe to emphasis that Mosix is not `just' a load 
balancer. I guess that eventually it will came down to definitions, so is 
there a common definition for a `load balancer'? What about `true parallel 
computation'?
	2)
On the ride back to Tel-Aviv Moshe pointed out that one of the reasons that 
Mosix is not part of the standard kernel is that the Mosix team would like to 
add the code with #ifdefs, while Linus object this way of additions. That is, 
according to Moshe, Linus wants the integration to be done with the standard C 
instructions.
Any particular reason for Linus to object the #ifdefs method? Is that in some 
way an official approach of the kernel leading devels?
Moshe added that Linus has code with #ifdefs in the kernel; and that the Mosix 
team like the #ifdefs way because it helps them isolate their code so that 
less people would blame their code when bugs in the kernel arise.
	3)
As a general comment to Moshe lecture I would like to point out the fact that 
whenever he was getting to some more detailed stuff (and went to the board to 
write it by hand), he asked: `but are you really interested in hearing this?'.
If it was up to me then the answer is `definitely yes'. And those details were 
not so complicated after all. (But I came late so it could be that in the 
beginning of his lecture he was too technical.)
-- 
	
	Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>



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