Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751152AbWBJGET (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:04:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751154AbWBJGET (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:04:19 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:6324 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751152AbWBJGER (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:04:17 -0500 To: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Dave Hansen , Kirill Korotaev , Linus Torvalds , Kirill Korotaev , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , frankeh@watson.ibm.com, clg@fr.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, serue@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, Rik van Riel , Alexey Kuznetsov , Andrey Savochkin , devel@openvz.org, Pavel Emelianov Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup References: <43E38BD1.4070707@openvz.org> <1139243874.6189.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200602101541.07631.ncunningham@cyclades.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:01:26 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200602101541.07631.ncunningham@cyclades.com> (Nigel Cunningham's message of "Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:40:56 +1000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 841 Lines: 21 Nigel Cunningham writes: > Am I missing something? I though migration referred only to userspace > processes. Software suspend on the other hand, deals with the whole system, > of which process data/context is only a part. The problem domain is user process and the kernel state they depend on. Implementation wise we are looking at two totally different problems. However the effects should be similar if the set of processes to migrate are all of the processes in the system. For most of the interesting cases migration does not need to be that ambitious. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/