Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:59:24 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v2][PATCH 4/9] Memory management - dump state |
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* Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> wrote: > > > >> checkpoint/ckpt_x86.c | 28 ++++ > >> checkpoint/rstr_x86.c | 2 + > > > > please move these into arch/x86/mm/checkpoint.c and > > arch/x86/mm/restore.c. (also, please dont try to abbreviate too much in > > filenames, makes it harder to follow changes later on, etc.) > > > > Cool stuff btw! Any ETA on when more complex apps can be > > checkpointed/restored? Also, shouldnt at least part of this effort > > be joined with the live migration efforts of openvz? (or do you see > > fundamental, unsolvable differences?) > > My understanding is that this is a result of the joint discussion > (with the OpenVZ folks present) that happened during the containers > min-summit prior to OLS this year.
great news :-)
This stuff should be completed ASAP, user-transparent kernel upgrades on a generic Linux distro would be really nice :-)
Ingo
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