Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:51:17 -0500 | From | "Serge E. Hallyn" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] OpenVZ kernel based checkpointing/restart |
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Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl@cs.columbia.edu): > This is a misconception: my patches are not "internal checkpoint". My > patches are basically "external checkpoint" by design, which *also* > accommodates self-checkpointing (aka internal). The same holds for the > restart. The implementation is demonstrated with "self-checkpoint" to > avoid complicating things at this early stage of proof-of-concept. > > For multiple processes all that is needed is a container and a loop > on the checkpoint side, and a method to recreate processes on the > restart side. Andrew suggests to do it in kernel space, I still have > doubts.
Yes I still prefer in-kernel. Can you elaborate on advantages of doing more work in userspace?
> While I held out the multi-process part of the patch so far because I
Yup, and i appreciate your restraint until now :) It made your patchset much easier to review.
> was explicitly asked to do it, it seems like this would be a good time > to push it out and get feedback.
Can you send that out as a patch(set) on top of your v7? I'd love to see (and test) it.
thanks, -serge
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