Re: [PATCH 0/9] OpenVZ kernel based checkpointing/restart

From: Louis Rilling
Date: Mon Oct 20 2008 - 07:10:28 EST


On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 04:33:03PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 14:57 +0400, Andrey Mirkin wrote:
> > This patchset introduces kernel based checkpointing/restart as it is
> > implemented in OpenVZ project. This patchset has limited functionality and
> > are able to checkpoint/restart only single process. Recently Oren Laaden
> > sent another kernel based implementation of checkpoint/restart. The main
> > differences between this patchset and Oren's patchset are:
>
> Hi Andrey,
>
> I'm curious what you want to happen with this patch set. Is there
> something specific in Oren's set that deficient which you need
> implemented? Are there some technical reasons you prefer this code?

To be fair, and since (IIRC) the initial intent was to start with OpenVZ's
approach, shouldn't Oren answer the same questions with respect to Andrey's
patchset?

I'm afraid that we are forgetting to take the best from both approaches...

Louis

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