From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, greg@kroah.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miklos@szeredi.hu
Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCHSET] CUSE: implement CUSE
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:38:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080901073844.GA5376@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqtggwng.fsf@frosties.localdomain>
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:20:19AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
> Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:30:32PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >> Yeah, compared to loopback over FUSE, anything would have less
> >> problem. :-) I don't know much about nbd but it's pretty much solving
> >> the same problem so I think it's logical to extend nbd including
> >> giving it a new transport if necessary? Or is there something
> >> fundamentally better when it's done via FUSE?
> >
> > My gutt feeling is that it would have less overhead when done via FUSE
> > than through nbd, but that could be wrong.
> >
> > Mike
>
> What I would hope is that BUSE would add some zero copy transport in
> there. A way to just redirect the BIOs from the BUSE device to other
> block devices without copying the data around.
>
> But maybe BUSE is a bad name for that. That would be more a DUSE -
> Device mapper in USEr space.
That already exists. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/DmUserspace
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-28 18:18 Tejun Heo
2008-08-28 18:19 ` [PATCH 1/5] FUSE: add fuse_ prefix to several functions Tejun Heo
2008-08-28 18:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] FUSE: export symbols to be used by CUSE Tejun Heo
2008-08-28 18:19 ` [PATCH 3/5] FUSE: separate out fuse_conn_init() from new_conn() Tejun Heo
2008-08-28 18:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] FUSE: add fuse_conn->release() Tejun Heo
2008-08-28 18:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace Tejun Heo
2008-08-28 20:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-28 22:15 ` Greg KH
2008-08-28 22:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-29 2:09 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-29 2:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-29 15:27 ` Nick Bowler
2008-08-29 5:50 ` [fuse-devel] [PATCHSET] CUSE: implement CUSE Mike Hommey
2008-08-29 5:52 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-29 18:50 ` Archie Cobbs
2008-08-30 12:30 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-30 18:56 ` Mike Hommey
2008-09-01 7:20 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2008-09-01 7:38 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2008-08-30 22:39 ` Archie Cobbs
2008-08-31 4:52 ` hooanon05
2008-08-30 16:35 ` Goswin von Brederlow
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