Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 6 authors, 2012-10-10

Re: btrfs send/receive review by vfs folks

From: Martin Steigerwald <hidden>
Date: 2012-10-06 09:40:28

Am Donnerstag, 4. Oktober 2012 schrieb Alex Lyakas:
Hi Jan,
as I promised, here is some code for you to look at.

First I will describe the approach in general.

# Get rid of the pipe. Instead, user-space passes a buffer and kernel
fills the specified user-space buffer with commands.
# When the buffer is full, kernel stops generating commands and
returns a checkpoint to the user-space.
Can it just fill a second buffer while userspace command handles the first?
# User-space does whatever it wants with the returned buffer, and then
calls the kernel again, with a buffer and a checkpoint that was
returned by the kernel from previous SEND ioctl().
# Kernel re-arms itself to the specified checkpoint, and fills the
specified buffer with commands, attaches a new checkpoint and so on.
# Eventually kernel signals to the user that there are no more
commands.
Thanks,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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