On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 10:29:59 +0200
Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Agblad Tore <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > works nice, but we also need some automatic switching, and using vmur will
> > get it working despite any network failure.
>
> What does "vmur" add to your solution?  You mean to signal a process
> in another Linux guest (on the same z/VM) ?
> Unless I've missed some recent enhancements, I don't think we have a
> way to trigger a user process on IMSG. So the receiver ends up polling
> for input, which is not elegant.
>
> Some groundwork already is in place with the SMSG handling on which
> the CMM interface builds. I'm wondering how hard it would be to have
> something that can pick up SMSG (but also IMSG and MSG probably)
> through IUCV and trigger something in userspace.

Something like this?

commit 1ffaa640c6ba135aafc91841204e41846eae6841
Author: Hendrik Brueckner <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Mar 8 12:26:26 2010 +0100

    [S390] smsgiucv_app: deliver z/VM CP special messages (SMSG) as uevents

    The smsgiucv_app driver registers a callback with the smsgiucv driver
    to receive z/VM CP special messages (SMSG) starting with "APP".

    When the callback is called for special messages, the driver creates
    an uevent for the received message.  The uevent consists of additional
    environment data containing the message prefix ("APP"), message sender,
    and message content.

    udev rules can be used to trigger application specific actions through
    matching the content or sender of the special message.

    Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <[email protected]>
    Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>


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   Martin.

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