From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
To: Vitaly Chernooky <vitalii.chernookyi@globallogic.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: Xen + futexes
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 12:48:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1435834131.25170.456.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANZZXhDYWRS1tZta96pYBEfsNzkze2t=jaEKwC7RTZkR+29nqw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 12:48 +0300, Vitaly Chernooky wrote:
> Hi all!
>
Hi,
>
> I have theoretical question.
>
Great, I love theoretical stuff! :-P
>
> What do you think about porting futexes or binder to XEN?
>
Ouch... That's *too* theoretical! :-)
No, really, I know a bit about futexes [0], while I know nothing about
binder (I'll investigate).
Actually, we don't even have mutexes _within_ the hypervisor, so I
struggle a bit to figure out how it would be useful to offer a similar
support to whatever is userspace for us (i.e., what futexes do, as far
as I can recall).
So, that's why I was joking/saying about this being too much
theoretical: do you have a use case in mind where something like that
can help and be useful? If yes, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
Regards,
Dario
[0] http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/futex.pdf
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-02 9:48 Xen + futexes Vitaly Chernooky
2015-07-02 10:48 ` Dario Faggioli [this message]
2015-07-03 8:05 ` Dario Faggioli
2015-07-03 15:39 ` Vitaly Chernooky
2015-07-03 16:02 ` Dario Faggioli
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