Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:52:54 -0500 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: User mode drivers: part 1, interrupt handling (patch for 2.6.11) |
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:42:27 +1100, Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote: > >>>>> "Jon" == Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes: > > >> The scenario I'm thinking about with these patches are things like > >> low-latency user-level networking between nodes in a cluster, where > >> for good performance even with a kernel driver you don't want to > >> share your interrupt line with anything else.
Instead of making up a new API what about making a library of calls that emulates the common entry points used by device drivers. The version I did for UML could take the same driver and run it in user space or the kernel without changing source code. I found this very useful.
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