From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v10][PATCH 02/13] Checkpoint/restart: initial documentation
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:45:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081128104554.GP28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227747884-14150-3-git-send-email-orenl@cs.columbia.edu>
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:04:33PM -0500, Oren Laadan wrote:
> +Currently, namespaces are not saved or restored. They will be treated
> +as a class of a shared object. In particular, it is assumed that the
> +task's file system namespace is the "root" for the entire container.
> +It is also assumed that the same file system view is available for the
> +restart task(s). Otherwise, a file system snapshot is required.
That is to say, bindings are not handled at all.
> +* What additional work needs to be done to it?
> +We know this design can work. We have two commercial products and a
> +horde of academic projects doing it today using this basic design.
May I use that for a t-shirt, please? With that quote in foreground, and
pus-yellow-greenish "MACH" serving as background. With the names of products
and projects dripping from it...
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-27 1:04 [RFC v10][PATCH 00/13] Kernel based checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 01/13] Create syscalls: sys_checkpoint, sys_restart Oren Laadan
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 02/13] Checkpoint/restart: initial documentation Oren Laadan
2008-11-28 10:45 ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-12-01 18:15 ` Dave Hansen
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 03/13] General infrastructure for checkpoint restart Oren Laadan
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 04/13] x86 support for checkpoint/restart Oren Laadan
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 05/13] Dump memory address space Oren Laadan
2008-11-28 10:53 ` Al Viro
2008-12-01 18:00 ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 20:57 ` Oren Laadan
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 06/13] Restore " Oren Laadan
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 07/13] Infrastructure for shared objects Oren Laadan
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 08/13] Dump open file descriptors Oren Laadan
2008-11-28 10:19 ` Al Viro
2008-12-01 17:47 ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 20:23 ` Oren Laadan
2008-12-01 20:51 ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 21:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-01 21:25 ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 21:20 ` Oren Laadan
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 09/13] Restore open file descriprtors Oren Laadan
2008-11-28 11:27 ` Al Viro
2008-12-01 19:22 ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 20:41 ` Oren Laadan
2008-12-01 20:54 ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-01 21:00 ` Oren Laadan
2008-12-01 21:07 ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-02 1:31 ` Dave Hansen
2008-12-02 1:12 ` Dave Hansen
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 10/13] External checkpoint of a task other than ourself Oren Laadan
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 11/13] Track in-kernel when we expect checkpoint/restart to work Oren Laadan
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 12/13] Checkpoint multiple processes Oren Laadan
2008-11-27 1:04 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 13/13] Restart " Oren Laadan
2008-12-03 23:58 ` [RFC v10][PATCH 00/13] Kernel based checkpoint/restart Serge E. Hallyn
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