From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andrey Mirkin <major@openvz.org>
Cc: devel@openvz.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH 0/9] OpenVZ kernel based checkpointing/restart
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:55:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220568926.23386.70.camel@nimitz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809031759.29132.major@openvz.org>
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 17:59 +0400, Andrey Mirkin wrote:
> > The first issues I see with this direction are some EXPORT_SYMBOL() that
> > would be useless without a module.
>
> Checkpoint/restart functionality is implemented as a kernel module to provide
> more flexibility during development process - you can easily unload module,
> fix what you need and load module again, you do not need to reboot you server
> in this case. We have discussed this question during Container's mini summit
> on OLS-2008 and we have found out that it will be convenient to have such an
> ability.
It would probably be best to separate out the bits that are needed to
make this feature build as a module. Since, as you say, this is only
useful during development, we'll have to rip these bits out eventually
to get it merged. Might as well do that from the start.
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-03 10:57 [PATCH 0/9] OpenVZ kernel based checkpointing/restart Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 10:57 ` [PATCH 1/9] Introduce trivial sys_checkpoint and sys_restore system calls Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 10:57 ` [PATCH 2/9] Make checkpoint/restart functionality modular Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 10:57 ` [PATCH 3/9] Introduce context structure needed during checkpointing/restart Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 10:57 ` [PATCH 4/9] Introduce container dump function Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 10:57 ` [PATCH 5/9] Introduce function to dump process Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 10:57 ` [PATCH 6/9] Introduce functions to dump mm Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 10:57 ` [PATCH 7/9] Introduce function for restarting a container Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 10:57 ` [PATCH 8/9] Introduce functions to restart a process Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 10:57 ` [PATCH 9/9] Introduce functions to restore mm Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 14:32 ` [PATCH 8/9] Introduce functions to restart a process Louis Rilling
2008-09-13 17:34 ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-03 14:17 ` [PATCH 6/9] Introduce functions to dump mm Louis Rilling
2008-09-03 14:23 ` [PATCH 4/9] Introduce container dump function Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-03 14:45 ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 12:29 ` [PATCH 3/9] Introduce context structure needed during checkpointing/restart Matthieu Fertré
2008-09-03 14:11 ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 13:56 ` Louis Rilling
2008-09-03 14:07 ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 14:13 ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-09-03 14:29 ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 14:27 ` [PATCH 2/9] Make checkpoint/restart functionality modular Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-03 14:51 ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 11:44 ` [PATCH 1/9] Introduce trivial sys_checkpoint and sys_restore system calls Cedric Le Goater
2008-09-03 13:05 ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 12:28 ` [PATCH 0/9] OpenVZ kernel based checkpointing/restart Cedric Le Goater
2008-09-03 13:59 ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-04 22:55 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2008-09-03 14:18 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-03 13:49 ` Louis Rilling
2008-09-03 14:06 ` Louis Rilling
2008-09-03 14:19 ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 14:26 ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-09-03 14:53 ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-04 8:14 ` Oren Laadan
2008-09-04 14:05 ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-17 23:33 ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-20 11:10 ` Louis Rilling
2008-10-20 13:25 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-20 13:48 ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-10-20 13:49 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-20 15:53 ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-20 16:37 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-20 17:23 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-21 0:18 ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-21 0:58 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-21 13:24 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-27 14:45 ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-20 16:51 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-21 9:36 ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-10-20 16:36 ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-20 12:14 ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-20 15:55 ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-27 14:07 ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-27 14:39 ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-30 6:02 ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-10-30 11:47 ` Louis Rilling
2008-10-30 17:08 ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-30 18:01 ` Louis Rilling
2008-10-30 18:28 ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-30 17:45 ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-30 18:14 ` Louis Rilling
2008-10-30 18:32 ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-31 10:37 ` Louis Rilling
2008-10-30 14:08 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-30 17:03 ` Dave Hansen
2008-11-03 19:35 ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-20 17:17 ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-27 14:38 ` Andrey Mirkin
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