On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
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"Kip Macy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: IIRC lack of per instance cdevs also limits Freebsd to one vmware instance.
Can you describe the proper semantics here? A cdev is a cdev, and when we
do things like dup we just copy the reference to that cdev. This has also
traditionally been resisted on layering violations grounds (since the data
we have doesn't map easily back to the fd at the time we call the cdev
methods).
In the past, I've done some experimental implementation allowing devfs
providers to provide session cookies for the file descriptor. This is fairly
contrary to our VFS design, and our notions of "open" are a bit hazy -- for
example, there are a number of situations in which I/O occurs on vnodes
without the vnode being open. The devfs cloning model does offer significant
simplications in many cases, and certainly fits our VFS model a bit more
happily. It also exists today. It may be that our VMware kernel module
doesn't know about it yet, however.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
Warner
: On 6/29/06, Oleksandr Tymoshenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > Christian Zander wrote:
: > > Hi all,
: > > # Task: implement mechanism to allow character drivers to
: > > maintain per-open instance data (e.g. like the Linux
: > > kernel's 'struct file *').
: > > Motivation: allows per thread NVIDIA notification delivery; also
: > > reduces CPU overhead for notification delivery
: > > from the NVIDIA kernel module to the X driver and to
: > > OpenGL.
: > > Priority: should translate to improved X/OpenGL performance.
: > > Status: has not been started.
: > I've stumbled across this issue a while ago. Actually it can
: > be partially solved using EVENTHANDLER_REGISTER of dev_clone event with
: > keeping state structure in si_drv1 or si_drv2 fields. I'm not sure it's
: > the best solution but it works for me though it smells like hack, and
: > looks like hack :) Anyway, having legitimate per-open instance data
: > structures of cdevs is a great assistance in porting linux drivers to
: > FreeBSD. Just my $0.02.
: >
: > --
: > Sincerely,
: >
: > Oleksandr Tymoshenko
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