Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Then please summarize again what you want change from the user's POV (fd >> range and arbitration, I guess, but also their scope?) > > Basically, when going from user-space to kernel-space, instead of a > simple translation, currently done with an addition in user-space for > most services, in kernel-space for select, there is a hash lookup, done > in kernel-space. > > and what impact >> that will have on the library and kernel ABIs. > > The impact on the ABI is that we no longer do the translation using > addition/substraction. If we broke all at once in version 2.5.x, we > could not run a 2.5.x-1 user-space support that does the > addition/substraction, with a 2.5.x kernel-space support which has the > unified file descriptors abstraction. > > What would be part of >> step 1, what of step 2 later in 2.5.x? > > Step 1 is adding the fdtable, use it in the rtdm and posix skin before > returning a fd to user-space, and when getting an fd from user-space. > Remove the translation by addition/substraction in the rtdm part of > libpthread_rt.
I assume this mapping will already make user-visible fds process-local, right? BTW, one downside of pushing the translation into the kernel part of the skins is that POSIX borderline threads will pay via an additional syscall + a futile lookup in the Xenomai fdtable. So far we can dispatch very cheaply. On the other hand, POSIX users who care about performance could also user __real_* or avoid the automatic wrapping. > > Step 2 is replacing the rtdm and posix registries with an unified fd > support based on the fdtable, the real kernel-space file descriptors (I > mean, the one which really belong to a kernel-space app) would be > implemented using a global fdtable. Duplicate the fdtable at fork, etc... > OK, if you are willing to draft a prototype for step 1, I'm open to discuss it. My requirements would be: - per-process fdtables (and locks) for the first level lookup - the second level lookup should be limited to device creation; simply keep a permanent reference to the rtdm_context in the fdtable Jan
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