[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Container Freezer

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Wed Jun 20 09:47:39 PDT 2007


Quoting Cedric Le Goater (clg at fr.ibm.com):
> Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 17:07 +0200, Cedric Le Goater wrote:
> >> This patchset is a prototype using the container infrastructure and
> >> the swsusp freezer to freeze a group of tasks. 
> > 
> > And this is useful because you don't want processes doing anything while
> > you try to checkpoint them, right? ;)
> 
> right there's always a reason for a patchset :) The freezer is something 
> already used by openvz. IBM's Metacluster uses a from kernel SIGSTOP signal. 
> 
> I would be in favor of adding a new c/r signal like other operating systems 
> have done today and in the past. This is something to discuss.

What do you mean by "would be in favor of" - you'd prefer that to this
subsystem?

I definately prefer using the freezer subsystem.

-serge
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