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[Xen-devel] RE: is a pure usermode backend possible?

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: is a pure usermode backend possible?
From: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:41:37 +0000
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Thread-topic: is a pure usermode backend possible?
I guess it depends on what the specific backend needs to do. I can see that it 
makes sense to put a block backend in user space where process scheduling 
latency might not be such an issue. Putting a network backend, for instance, in 
user space will probably hurt.

  Paul

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Harper
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> Subject: [Xen-devel] is a pure usermode backend possible?
> 
> Is there any reason why a purely user mode backend driver could not
> work
> in Dom0? I believe that the xenstore, grant table, and event channel
> interfaces all exist so I can't see why not, unless creating nodes
> under
> /local/domain/0/backend might confuse something?
> 
> Assuming it's possible, are there any performance reasons or other
> reasons why it might not be a good idea?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> James
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