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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, jeremy@goop.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v2][PATCH 4/9] Memory management - dump state
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:59:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080821115924.GC5615@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48AD433E.7010905@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


* Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> > 
> >>  checkpoint/ckpt_x86.c   |   28 ++++
> >>  checkpoint/rstr_x86.c   |    2 +
> > 
> > please move these into arch/x86/mm/checkpoint.c and 
> > arch/x86/mm/restore.c. (also, please dont try to abbreviate too much in 
> > filenames, makes it harder to follow changes later on, etc.)
> > 
> > Cool stuff btw! Any ETA on when more complex apps can be 
> > checkpointed/restored? Also, shouldnt at least part of this effort 
> > be joined with the live migration efforts of openvz? (or do you see 
> > fundamental, unsolvable differences?)
> 
> My understanding is that this is a result of the joint discussion 
> (with the OpenVZ folks present) that happened during the containers 
> min-summit prior to OLS this year.

great news :-)

This stuff should be completed ASAP, user-transparent kernel upgrades on 
a generic Linux distro would be really nice :-)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-21 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-21  2:58 [RFC v2][PATCH 1/9] kernel based checkpoint-restart Oren Laadan
2008-08-21  3:03 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 1/9] Create trivial sys_checkpoint/sys_restart syscalls Oren Laadan
2008-08-21  5:17   ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-22 19:32   ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-22 20:11     ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-22 21:20     ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-21  3:04 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 2/9] General infrastructure for checkpoint restart Oren Laadan
2008-08-21  9:35   ` Louis Rilling
2008-08-24  5:58     ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-22 20:01   ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-25  2:47     ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-26 16:42       ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-27  0:38         ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-21  3:04 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 3/9] x86 support for checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2008-08-22 20:17   ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-21  3:05 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 4/9] Memory management - dump state Oren Laadan
2008-08-21  7:30   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-21  8:01     ` Justin P. Mattock
2008-08-21 10:28     ` Balbir Singh
2008-08-21 11:59       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-08-21  9:53   ` Louis Rilling
2008-08-22 21:21     ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-22 20:37   ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-24  5:40     ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-26 16:33       ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-27  0:14         ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-27 15:41           ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-27 15:57             ` Louis Rilling
2008-08-27 16:12               ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-27 16:19                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-27 20:34             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-08-27 20:38               ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-27 20:48                 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-08-27 20:56                   ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-31  7:16                     ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-31 17:34                       ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-09-03 11:43                         ` [Devel] " Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-03 12:15                           ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-09-03 13:29                             ` Andrey Mirkin
2008-09-02 15:32                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-08-21  3:05 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 5/9] Memory managemnet - restore state Oren Laadan
2008-08-21 10:07   ` Louis Rilling
2008-08-21  3:06 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 6/9] Checkpoint/restart: initial documentation Oren Laadan
2008-08-21  3:06 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 7/9] Infrastructure for shared objects Oren Laadan
2008-08-21 10:40   ` Louis Rilling
2008-08-26 17:01     ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-27  8:26       ` Louis Rilling
2008-08-21  3:07 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 8/9] File descriprtors - dump state Oren Laadan
2008-08-21 11:06   ` Louis Rilling
2008-08-25  3:28     ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-25 10:30       ` Louis Rilling
2008-08-21  3:07 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 9/9] File descriprtors (restore) Oren Laadan
2008-08-21  5:26   ` Oren Laadan
2008-08-21  5:15 ` [RFC v2][PATCH 1/9] kernel based checkpoint-restart Oren Laadan

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