Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762525AbYJJQhk (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:37:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760885AbYJJQhR (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:37:17 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:57135 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760446AbYJJQhQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:37:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Track in-kernel when we expect checkpoint/restart to work From: Dave Hansen To: Greg Kurz Cc: Oren Laadan , Ingo Molnar , Daniel Lezcano , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1223656489.10017.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20081009190405.13A253CB@kernel> <1223626834.8787.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <48EF144D.1050906@fr.ibm.com> <20081010145934.GF11695@elte.hu> <48EF7211.2000303@cs.columbia.edu> <1223656489.10017.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:36:43 -0700 Message-Id: <1223656603.11830.50.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 606 Lines: 15 On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 18:34 +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > This flag is weak... testing it gives absolutly no hint whether the > checkpoint may succeed or not. As it is designed now, a user can only be > aware that checkpoint is *forever* denied. I agree that it's only useful > as a "flexible CR todo list". Cool, so everyone agrees the patch is useful! -- Dave -- 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/