linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v7][PATCH 0/9] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

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Message-ID: <48FF13C0.6000805@fr.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:51:28 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.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,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [RFC v7][PATCH 0/9] Kernel based checkpoint/restart

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:40:28 -0400
>>> Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu> wrote:
>>>> These patches implement basic checkpoint-restart [CR]. This version
>>>> (v7) supports basic tasks with simple private memory, and open files
>>>> (regular files and directories only).
>>> - how useful is this code as it stands in real-world usage?
>> Right now, an application must be specifically written to use these 
>> mew system calls.  It must be a single process and not share any 
>> resources with other processes.  The only file descriptors that may be 
>> open are simple files and may not include sockets or pipes.
>>
>> What this means in practice is that it is useful for a simple app 
>> doing computational work.
> 
> say a chemistry application doing calculations. Or a raytracer with a 
> large job. Both can take many hours (days!) even on very fast machine 
> and the restrictions on rebootability can hurt in such cases.
> 
> You should reach a minimal level of initial practical utility: say some 
> helper tool that allows testers to checkpoint and restore a real PovRay 
> session - without any modification to a stock distro PovRay.

There are the liblxc userspace tools doing that.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxc/

There are the lxc-checkpoint and lxc-restart commands to test the Oren's 
patches with the external checkpoint Cedric did. These commands are 
experimental and under development so a hack may be necessary for 
checkpoint/restart.

I didn't tried with Oren's external checkpoint yet, but I think the 
commands should work. Actually these commands relies on the freezer, so 
the checkpoint command does freeze, checkpoint, unfreeze. (and kill if 
specified).

	lxc-create -n foo

	lxc-start -n foo mypovray

	lxc-checkpoint -s -n foo > myckptfile

	lxc-restart -n foo < myckptfile

Thanks
   -- Daniel
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