[CRIU] rewriting images via criu (or crit?)

Cyrill Gorcunov gorcunov at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 06:00:31 PDT 2014


On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 07:57:29AM -0500, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > 
> > As to me -- external tool for such modifications is better choise and it seems
> > crit is exactly fits here. This might have slight impact on the speed in compare
> > if the language would builtin into criu itself, but criu is already complex enough
> > so adding language engine here would simply overload I think.
> 
> Yes, agreed. I think crit is the best place for this. I hope that it
> won't have a huge speed impact, we could parse the language in
> python, but then use C to do the actual rewriting if it turns out to be
> a bottleneck.

It might be a bottleneck for big images like memory contents and such but
most of the images we're carrying are not that big, so indeed lets stick
with easier to implement solution (ie python) first.


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