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, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7