From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [C/R v20][PATCH 00/96] Linux Checkpoint-Restart - v20 Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 16:57:54 -0700 Message-ID: <20100401165754.9fe93085.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1268842164-5590-1-git-send-email-orenl@cs.columbia.edu> <20100401233710.GA23711@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, Oren Laadan To: "Serge E. Hallyn" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100401233710.GA23711@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:37:10 -0500 "Serge E. Hallyn" wrote: > Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl@cs.columbia.edu): > > Hi Andrew, > > > > Following up on the thread on the checkpoint-restart patch set > > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/1/422), the following series is the > > latest checkpoint/restart, based on 2.6.33. > > > > The first 20 patches are cleanups and prepartion for c/r; they > > are followed by the actual c/r code. > > > > Please apply to -mm, and let us know if there is any way we can > > help. > > Hi Andrew, > > Oren sent v20 of the checkpoint/restart patchset out two weeks ago. > We've addressed some feedback from linux-fsdevel and added network and > pid namespace support. So we could resend again now. However we also > have a bigger patchset in the works which is feature-neutral, but moves > all the code out of linux-2.6/checkpoint/ and next to the code it > affects. I ancitipate #ifdef clashes though, so we'll > need to do quite a bit of various-config-and-arch testing of the new > code layout. If you're at a good point to pull it, we can resend the > code as is now so as to get some wider testing exposure. Or, if you prefer, > we can wait until after the code move in case that would be seen as more > amenable to meaningful review. > I guess the final product would be better. It sounds like it'll have the added benefit of making the various interested parties pay more attention, too ;)