From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: User mode drivers: part 1, interrupt handling (patch for 2.6.11)
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:52:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e473391050313175229f1a3d0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16948.60419.257853.470644@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
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.
--
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-14 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-11 3:36 User mode drivers: part 1, interrupt handling (patch for 2.6.11) Peter Chubb
2005-03-11 10:29 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-12 16:27 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-12 18:55 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-14 0:39 ` Peter Chubb
2005-03-14 1:24 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-11 13:50 ` Michael Raymond
2005-03-11 17:25 ` Greg KH
2005-03-11 17:31 ` Michael Raymond
2005-03-11 19:14 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-13 2:03 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-15 4:32 ` Lee Revell
2005-03-15 13:28 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-14 0:02 ` Peter Chubb
2005-03-14 13:33 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-15 3:15 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-12 15:55 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-12 17:11 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-03-14 1:55 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-14 3:04 ` Peter Chubb
2005-03-14 0:36 ` Peter Chubb
[not found] ` <9e47339105031317193c28cbcf@mail.gmail.com>
2005-03-14 1:42 ` Peter Chubb
2005-03-14 1:52 ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2005-03-14 3:06 ` Peter Chubb
2005-03-15 3:19 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-15 3:47 ` Peter Chubb
2005-03-15 3:50 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-15 4:11 ` Peter Chubb
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2005-03-15 19:20 Stephen Warren
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