Re: [MirageOS-devel] Lifecycle

[Richard Mortier <richard.mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure, in principle -- I was wondering about a concrete example,
particularly given what I understand intended / common uses of
unikernels to be, ie., in micro-service / serverless environments.

On 19 July 2016 at 20:09, Nik Sultana <ns441@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think if we're asking to restart a service, then it might be expedient to
> avoid certain cleanups or deallocation at the stopping phase, since the same
> allocations or state will (optimistically speaking) be recreated soon at the
> starting phase. This could save wasted effort saved at the stopping phase.
> Presumably there would need some kind of timer to ensure that the full
> cleanup and deallocation does take place eventually, if the start fails.
> Cold vs warm vs tepid restart?
>
>
> On 2016-07-19 20:01, Richard Mortier wrote:
>>
>> On 14 July 2016 at 18:16, Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Le jeudi, 14 juillet 2016 à 18:10, Daniel Bünzli a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Since you have to deal with that idea anyway I'd say it's better not to
>>>> support a restart event.
>>>
>>>
>>> It could however be added as a *hint* to the stop event payload.
>>
>>
>> Concretely, what would be done with that hint though?



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