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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Greg Kurz <gkurz@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Track in-kernel when we	expect checkpoint/restart to work
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:18:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EF8E77.8050000@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223656489.10017.33.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Greg Kurz wrote:

> This flag is weak... testing it gives absolutly no hint whether the
> checkpoint may succeed or not. As it is designed now, a user can only be
> aware that checkpoint is *forever* denied. I agree that it's only useful
> as a "flexible CR todo list".

I don't think it's true that it gives "absolutly no hint".

If the flag is not set, then checkpoint will succeed, right?  Whereas if 
the flag is set, then it's an indication that checkpoint could fail (but 
may still succeed if whatever condition caused the flag to be set is no 
longer true).

Chris


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-10 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-09 19:04 [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Track in-kernel when we expect checkpoint/restart to work Dave Hansen
2008-10-09 19:04 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2] first callers of process_deny_checkpoint() Dave Hansen
2008-10-09 19:43   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-09 20:54     ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-10  8:46       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10 13:17         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-10 14:54           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10 19:53             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-10 19:53               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10 20:40                 ` Len Brown
2008-10-10 22:57                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-11 13:48         ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-11 15:00           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10 10:27       ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-10-10  8:41   ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-10 10:17   ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-10-10 14:04     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-10 16:45       ` Greg Kurz
2008-10-10 17:13         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-10 17:28         ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-13  8:20           ` Greg Kurz
2008-10-10  8:20 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Track in-kernel when we expect checkpoint/restart to work Greg Kurz
2008-10-10  8:37   ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-10  8:47     ` Greg Kurz
2008-10-10 10:11     ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-10 14:59     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10 15:17       ` Oren Laadan
2008-10-10 15:28         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-10 16:34         ` Greg Kurz
2008-10-10 16:36           ` Dave Hansen
2008-10-10 20:57             ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-10 17:18           ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2008-10-13  8:18             ` Greg Kurz
2008-10-13 16:46               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-10 16:33     ` Dave Hansen

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