LinuxWorld: Stronger I/O & VM Coming Soon to Linux

Posted by timothy on Monday August 8, 2005 @07:06AM from the what-does-this-guy-know-anyhow dept.

Mark Brunelli, News Editor writes "Tim Witham, CTO of Open Source Development Labs and a featured speaker at LinuxWorld, says the next Linux kernel will feature improved input/output and virtualization capabilities. Said Witham: 'Enabling virtualization is a big win [for Linux 2.6] as it allows IT shops to start their development cycles for a technology they will be looking at deploying within the next year or so. There has been lots of good work done with regard to system scalability, memory management, disk I/O, process and thread scalability. Also, work done for availability, like a greatly improved multi-path I/O [were victories].'"

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Content-free by interiot · 2005-08-08 07:20 · Score: 4, Informative

Since the linked article seems to no more information that what the summary says, here's another link that discusses virtualization+kernel a little more. It looks like it's the Xen work that's going into the kernel (the project that IBM and AMD and others have been putting money and developers into to get working).