【论文资料】DMTCPANewLinuxCheckpointingMechanismForVanilla：dmtcp新Linux检查点机制的香草.ppt

DMTCP: A New Linux Checkpointing Mechanism For Vanilla Universe Jobs Why DMTCP? Why checkpoint at all? Problems with Condor’s Standard Universe Single process. No pthreads. No mmap() support. Forced re-link to form a static executable. DMTCP removes these restrictions! What is DMTCP? Distributed Multi-Threaded CheckPointing. Works with Linux Kernel 2.6.9 and later. Supports sequential and multi-threaded computations across single/multiple hosts. Entirely in user space (no kernel modules or root privilege). Transparent (no recompiling, no re-linking). Written at Northeastern U. and MIT and under active development for 4+ years. LGPL’d and freely available. No Remote I/O. Process Structure How Does It Work? ./dmtcp_checkpoint a.out # starts coordinator too ./dmtcp_command –c # talks to coordinator ./dmtcp_restart ckpt_a.out-*.dmtcp Coordinator is a stateless synchronization server for the distributed checkpointing algorithm. Checkpoint/Restart performance related to size of memory, disk write speed, and synchronization. How Does It Work? LD_PRELOAD: Transparently preloads checkpoint libraries which installs libc wrappers and checkpointing code. SIGUSR2: Used internally from checkpoint thread to user threads. Wrappers: Only on less heavily used calls to libc fork, exec, system, pipe, bind, listen, setsockopt, connect, accept, clone, close, ptsname, openlog, closelog, signal, sigaction, sigvec, sigblock, sigsetmask, sigprocmask, rt_sigprocmask, pthread_sigmask Overhead is negligible. How Does It Work? Additional wrappers when process id thread id virtualization is enabled getpid, getppid, gettid, tcgetpgrp, tcsetprgrp, getgrp, setpgrp, getsid, setsid, kill, tkill, tgkill, wait, waitpid, waitid, wait3, wait4 How Does It Work? Checkpoint image compression on-the-fly (default). Currently only supports dynamically linking to libc.so. Support for static libc.a is feasible, but not implemented. Stays close to POSIX API standards. A Checkpoint Under DMTCP dmtcphijack.so m