Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764460AbYJJU55 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:57:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760098AbYJJU5o (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:57:44 -0400 Received: from mtagate1.uk.ibm.com ([194.196.100.161]:46944 "EHLO mtagate1.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760243AbYJJU5n (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:57:43 -0400 Message-ID: <48EFC1BE.5010300@fr.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:57:34 +0200 From: Daniel Lezcano User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Hansen CC: Greg Kurz , Oren Laadan , Ingo Molnar , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] Track in-kernel when we expect checkpoint/restart to work 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> <1223656603.11830.50.camel@nimitz> In-Reply-To: <1223656603.11830.50.camel@nimitz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 664 Lines: 15 Dave Hansen wrote: > 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! Yes, definitively. It is a good idea. -- 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/