Re: [RFC v2][PATCH 4/9] Memory management - dump state

Ingo Molnar
2008-08-21T12:00:06Z

* 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