Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:26:53 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [fuse-devel] OSS Proxy Jack slave |
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Hello,
On 06/10/2010 03:28 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Tejun Heo wrote: > I'm sure its a good idea to provide an interface that does't _require_ > server side mmaps. This doesn't preclude an mmap interface later on, > but I'd rather start with a "pure" read/write device interface, which > is in a lot of ways simpler to solve than mmap.
It doesn't preclude that but then again having two interfaces can be a bit silly.
> As for pinning kernel pages, I still think it's a good idea for the > char device interface, but you're right, it's not necessary. > > In fact I'm mostly ready with an implementation of store/retrieve that > just pokes the regular page cache.
But I think if we can avoid using pinned kernel pages, pure r/w based implementation could be different and useful enough, so yeah, great.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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