From: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:41:14 +1000
> If only there were some kind of, I don't know... summit... for kernel
> people...
I'm starting to disbelieve the myth that because we can discuss
technical issues on mailing lists, we should talk primarily about
pro
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:41:43 +1000 Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 19 April 2008 05:06:34 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:15:15 +1000 Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > > What is the maximum numbet of pages which an unpriviliged user can
> > >
On Saturday 19 April 2008 05:38:50 Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> On 4/18/08, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is may be our third high-bandwidth user/kernel interface to
> > transport bulk data ("hbukittbd") which was implemented because its
> > predecessors weren't quite right. In a y
On Sunday 20 April 2008 02:33:22 Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 02:05:31AM +1000, Rusty Russell
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > There are two reasons not to grab the lock. It turns out that if we
> > tried to lock here, we'd deadlock, since the callbacks are called under
> > the
On Saturday 19 April 2008 20:22:15 Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 02:39:48PM +1000, Rusty Russell
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > +int vring_get_buffer(struct vring_info *vr,
> > +struct iovec *in_iov,
> > +unsigned int *num_in, unsigned lo
> So I think it would be good to plonk the proposed interface on the table
> and have a poke at it. Is it compat-safe? Is it extensible in a
> backward-compatible fashion? Are there future-safe changes we should make
> to it? Can Michael Kerrisk understand, review and document it? etc.
>
> Yo
On Saturday 19 April 2008 05:06:34 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:15:15 +1000 Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > > What is the maximum numbet of pages which an unpriviliged user can
> > > concurrently pin with this code?
> >
> > Since only root can open the tun device, it'
