[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] [TECH TOPIC] live kernel patching

[Chris Mason]

On 05/02/2014 03:42 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> Runtime/live kernel patching is becoming a topic these days. There are
> several parallel implementations currently evolving in parallel (kpatch,
> kgraft, criu-based solution, ksplice to some extent), all of them having
> their pros and cons.
>
> It's clear that what is going to get merged at the end of the day would
> have to be some super-position of the currently existing solutions.
>
> Finding a reasonable compromise might be challenging. Having discussion
> between the groups working on those solutions (tech topic) and with
> "general maintainer audience" to face the flame^W^W^Wobtain feedback
> (core topic) would be very valuable step in converging to unified
> solution.
>
> Suggested participants: see the list of "competing" projects above
>

Tons of interest in this topic here, mostly for the in-memory database 
workloads.

-chris