Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: C/R without "leaks" (was: Re: Creating tasks on restart: userspace vs kernel) | | From | Greg Kurz <> | | Date | Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:46:14 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 20:12 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:42:17AM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 23:56 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > There are sockets and live netns as the most complex example. I'm not > > > prepared to describe it exactly, but people wishing to do C/R with > > > "leaks" should be very careful with their wishes. > > > > They should close their sockets before checkpoint and find/have some way > > to reconnect after. This implies some kind of C/R awareness in the code > > to be checkpointed. > > How do you imagine sshd closing sockets and reconnecting?
Dunno and it isn't really my concern... I'm interested in HPC jobs that can collaborate with the C/R feature. For examples, those jobs that use interconnect hardware that will never be *checkpointable*... Usually, the batch manager tells the jobs it's going to be checkpointed, so that it can disconnect/shrink memory/reach quiescent point, and reconnect after resuming execution.
I understand you aim at supporting transparent C/R of connected TCP sockets. Nice feature. Could you give use cases where it's *really* helpful/needed/mandatory ?
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