Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Hi all, >> >> Here is a proposition a more detailed agenda for the checkpoint/restart >> mini-summit. If everybody is ok with it, I will update the wiki. >> >> Comments are welcome :) > > A reading list is useful, even to help get some ideas circulating > before we get there. > > Ultimately the technical details will need to be resolve by > people discussing things and sending patches back and forth > on the mailing lists. > > I don't think a detailed agenda is going to get us anywhere. > Especially not one focused on the implementation details. > > I think we need to start by seeing what we can agree on. Certainly we > agree that checkpoint/restart needs to be part of the picture. What > are the problems that the linux community can solve with > checkpoint/restart. > > Then we need to talk about what kind of implementation we want to > merge into mainline. How do we sell it, and how do we implement > it without affecting long term maintainability. > > I think the granularity of our operations, and what state we > save is important. I don't think how we save it is important > unless it affects one of our requirements. > > As for the posix draft and the historical Cray & SGI implementations. > They were on the wrong track. The did not have namespace support > so they could not in general restore their checkpoints. > > There are also a lot of things you have failed to touch on, that > I'm not going to go into now. > > With any luck the mini-summit before OLS will be the start of a > conversation that will go on all week, and continue on the mailing > lists. > > The real question is how do we coordinate our efforts to build a good > linux checkpoint/restart implementation. > >> * Documentation >> * Zap : www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/publications/usenix2007_fordist.pdf >> * Metacluster : lxc.sourceforge.net/doc/ols2006/lxc-ols2006.pdf >> * OpenVZ : http://wiki.openvz.org/Checkpointing_and_live_migration >> * Checkpoint/Restart technology : >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_checkpointing >> * Virtual Servers and Checkpoint/Restart in Mainstream Linux : Sigops >> document > > There is also the classic emacs undump. > The very simple vmadump from bproc. Thanks Eric for all your comments. I agree the agenda is a little big, I will reduce it and I will add the points you raised. I have other points from by Oren I will add too, perhaps that will cover more aspect of the discussion. -- Daniel _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers