linux-kernel - Re: What can OpenVZ do?

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Date:	Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:28:18 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: What can OpenVZ do?

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:45:03PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:27:32AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Merging checkpoints instead might give them the incentive to get
> > > their act together.
> > 
> > Knowing how much time it takes to beat CPT back into usable shape every time
> > big kernel rebase is done, OpenVZ/Virtuozzo have every single damn incentive
> > to have CPT mainlined.
> 
> So where is the bottleneck? I suspect the effort in having forward ported
> it across 4 major kernel releases in a single year is already larger than
> the technical effort it would  take to upstream it. Any unreasonable upstream 
> resistence/passivity you are bumping into?

People were busy with netns/containers stuff and OpenVZ/Virtuozzo bugs.
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