Re: What can OpenVZ do?

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Fri Feb 13 2009 - 17:22:33 EST


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:45:03PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:27:32AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Merging checkpoints instead might give them the incentive to get
> > > their act together.
> >
> > Knowing how much time it takes to beat CPT back into usable shape every time
> > big kernel rebase is done, OpenVZ/Virtuozzo have every single damn incentive
> > to have CPT mainlined.
>
> So where is the bottleneck? I suspect the effort in having forward ported
> it across 4 major kernel releases in a single year is already larger than
> the technical effort it would take to upstream it. Any unreasonable upstream
> resistence/passivity you are bumping into?

People were busy with netns/containers stuff and OpenVZ/Virtuozzo bugs.
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