On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:37:56 GMT "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:

:>This week I attended a vendors presentation of a proposed product.
:>I rather not disclsoe the Vendor nor the product due to any confidentialy 
agreements.

:>The Speaker for this presentation did not provide any specific details. 
However from the presentation I was able to deduce the following (I think).

:>Address Space "A" runs in problem state - key 8.
:>Address Space "A" Issues a Program Call instruction which inturn invokes a 
Cross Memory Space Switching Routine (in the Vendors Server Space "B").  The 
PC-ss routine executes in supervisor state,
:>and its only responsibility is to schedule an SRB into the requesting
:>Address Space "A".

:>Now Address Space "A" has an SRB Routing executing in its address space in 
Supervisor State.

:>Has anyone seen the above Architecture/Technique used ?

Of course.

:>Is this a commonly used technique ?

Yes. Why do you see this as an issue? The PC routine can pretty much do
anything that the SRB will do.

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Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]>
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