From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
<ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] [TECH TOPIC] live kernel patching
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 17:23:14 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5368E242.7090001@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1405060005290.3969@pobox.suse.cz>
On 05/06/2014 02:08 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2014, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
>>> Tons of interest in this topic here, mostly for the in-memory database
>>> workloads.
>>
>> Would in-memory databases be happier if there were a way to kexec
>> without losing your data?
>
> Well, that's basicaly what criu-based aproach is doing. With the drawback
> that dumping during checkpointing can take a while for large tasks (such
> as in-memory databases) I guess.
It does takes a while, but not when there's a lot of memory mapped by tasks.
This is what "preserving memory in place over kexec" is needed for -- we keep
all tasks' memory in memory, thus avoiding long delays due to writing it on
disk into images. Such thing performs poorly when there's a lot of _dirty_
memory hanging around.
Thanks,
Pavel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-06 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-02 19:42 Jiri Kosina
2014-05-02 21:17 ` James Bottomley
2014-05-04 8:34 ` Li Zefan
2014-05-05 14:00 ` Chris Mason
2014-05-05 21:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-05 22:08 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-05-06 13:17 ` James Bottomley
2014-05-06 13:23 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2014-05-06 14:07 ` Chris Mason
2014-05-06 15:44 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2014-05-06 17:02 ` Chris Mason
2014-05-06 1:33 ` Kees Cook
2014-05-06 7:05 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-05-06 13:16 ` Dave Jones
2014-05-06 13:23 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-05-06 13:18 ` Kees Cook
2014-05-06 13:28 ` James Bottomley
2014-05-06 13:41 ` Kees Cook
2014-05-06 17:11 ` Mimi Zohar
2014-05-06 18:34 ` James Bottomley
2014-05-06 12:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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