Re: [RFC v13][PATCH 00/14] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

2009-03-12 Thread Oren Laadan
Oren Laadan wrote: Hi, Just got back from 3 weeks with practically no internet, and I see that I missed a big party ! Trying to catch up with what's been said so far -- [...] - Will any of this involve non-trivial serialisation of kernel objects? If so, that's getting into the

Re: [RFC v13][PATCH 00/14] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

2009-02-16 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: For extra marks: - Will any of this involve non-trivial serialisation of kernel objects? If so, that's getting into the unacceptably-expensive-to-maintain space, I suspect. We have some structures that are certainly

Re: [RFC v13][PATCH 00/14] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

2009-02-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org wrote: Similar to the way in which perfectly correct and normal kernel sometimes has to be changed because it unexpectedly upsets the -rt patch. Actually, regarding -rt, we try to keep that in two buckets: 1) Normal kernel code works but is unclean

Re: [RFC v13][PATCH 00/14] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

2009-02-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:08:02 +0100 Ingo Molnar mi...@elte.hu wrote: * Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org wrote: Similar to the way in which perfectly correct and normal kernel sometimes has to be changed because it unexpectedly upsets the -rt patch. Actually, regarding -rt, we

Re: [RFC v13][PATCH 00/14] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

2009-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:11:22 -0800 Dave Hansen d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: ... - In bullet-point form, what features are missing, and should be added? * support for more architectures than i386 * file descriptors: * sockets (network, AF_UNIX, etc...) * devices files *

Re: [RFC v13][PATCH 00/14] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

2009-02-12 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Dave Hansen (d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com): Patch 12/14 is supposed to address this *concept*. But, it hasn't been carried through so that it currently works. My expectation was that we would go through and add things over time. I'll go make sure I push it to the point that it actually

Re: [RFC v13][PATCH 00/14] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 12:07 -0500, Oren Laadan wrote: Checkpoint-restart (c/r): a couple of fixes in preparation for 64bit architectures, and a couple of fixes for bugss (comments from Serge Hallyn, Sudakvev Bhattiprolu and Nathan Lynch). Updated and tested against v2.6.28. Aiming for -mm.