From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759927AbYDKLtY (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:49:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759978AbYDKLsx (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:48:53 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:33897 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759812AbYDKLsh (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:48:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:49:22 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: matthltc@us.ibm.com, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: Linux-Kernel , Linux Containers Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Container Freezer: Reuse Suspend Freezer Message-ID: <20080411114921.GA1740@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20080403210316.397506379@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080403210316.397506379@us.ibm.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > NOTE: Due to problems with my MTA configuration two earlier attempts reached linux-pm > but not linux-kernel. Please cc linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org on replies. > > This patchset is a prototype using the container infrastructure and > the swsusp freezer to freeze a group of tasks. I've merely taken Cedric's > patches, forward-ported them to 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 and done a small amount of > testing. Okay, freezer probably does what you want, but be warned that Linus is not exactly in love with freezer. You probably can get away with using it for user processes, but maybe you should drop him the line saying you want to expand freezer usage and see what happens. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html