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

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Message-ID: <20081030140843.GA5600@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:08:43 -0500
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrey Mirkin <major@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@...labs.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH 0/9] OpenVZ kernel based
	checkpointing/restart

Quoting Andrey Mirkin (major@...nvz.org):
> Anyway we should ask everyone what they think about user- and kernel- based 
> process creation.
> Dave, Serge, Cedric, Daniel, Louis what do you think about that?

I prefer kernel.  Pretty sure Dave prefers user-space.

I'd say the thing to do is push the core API that supports single-thread
c/r.  Then try to push the patch to do recreate processes from the
kernel, and let the arguments for and against that stand on their own.

-serge
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