[Devel] Re: [RFC v2][PATCH 4/9] Memory management - dump state

[Ingo Molnar]

* Balbir Singh <balbir at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Oren Laadan <orenl at 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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