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History -- or What's a Partition and why it is Adapative?#Some customers were asking us to run virtual machines, or even for ARINC 653 compliance, so they could better manage their cpu time and memory resources. "Not real time" we thought. So over a few beers, we asked them what problems they really wanted to solve. It came down to three basic scenarios:
Hmm. We thought. Virtualization-like solutions can do that but they are inflexible and not real time. We figured we could divide, or partition, system resources in a way we can reconfigure on-the-fly and make it realtime too. So there. The Tech#The basic ideas are to
There are two components, a fair share scheduler, actually a partition scheduler, and a memory control system called, "memory partitioning". They provide time and space partitions, respectively. The two kinds of partitions can be used independently, or used together. A third piece, partitioning of filesystem resources is Coming Real Soon Now(TM).
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