[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] sharing userspace IB objects

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Tue Jul 10 00:19:12 PDT 2007


> Quoting Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] sharing userspace IB objects
> 
>  > Could you please clarify how do you envision this done?
>  > Do we just create our own filesystem?
>  > 
>  > Reason I ask, we'll need something like this for SRC domain too ...
> 
> I don't have a really clear idea.  "Look at spufs" is about as far as
> I got.

That one is actually not very different from sysfs:
there just seems to be a set of pre-defined files.

The special nature of your suggested filesystem would be
that we actually let users create files there,
but then files need to disappear when the last user
closes the file.

Any more hints?

-- 
MST



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