On Wednesday 03 September 2008 16:15 Cedric Le Goater wrote: > Andrey Mirkin wrote: > > On Sunday 31 August 2008 21:34 Cedric Le Goater wrote: > >> Oren Laadan wrote: > >>> Dave, Serge: > >>> > >>> I'm currently away so I must keep this short. I think we have so far > >>> more discussion than an actual problem. I'm happy to coordinate with > >>> every interested party to eventually see this work go into main stream. > >> > >> thanks. We do need a moderator and federator. > >> > >>> My only concerns are twofold: first, to get more feedback I believe we > >>> need to get the code a bit more usable; including FDs is an excellent > >>> way to actually do that. That will add significant value to the patch. > >> > >> hmm, yes and no. > >> > >> fd's are a must have but I would be more interested to see an external > >> checkpoint/restart and signal support first. why ? because it would be > >> already usable for most computational programs in HPC, like this stupid > >> one : > >> > >> https://www.ccs.uky.edu/~bmadhu/pi/pi1.c > >> > >> signals are required because it's how 'load' and/or 'system' managers > >> interact with the jobs they spawn. external checkpoint/restart for the > >> same reason. > > > > I'm sorry for being out of discussion for so long time. > > I've just sent a patchset with external checkpoint/restart as it is > > implemented in OpenVZ. > > External checkpoint/restart also is very usefull if we will have > > container's infrastructure in mainstream. > > It won't be very hard to add support for signals in my patchset. I'll > > wait for some time for comments and will add support for signals in next > > version. > > OK. > > Then, we should be able to have a simple C/R framework (user and kernel) if > we integrate your patchset or Oren's with Daniel's user tools : > > http://lxc.cvs.sourceforge.net/lxc/ > > I was just starting to work on Oren's patchset when you sent yours :) I will take a look on Daniel's user tools. Thanks, Andrey _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers