Re: new IPC mechanism ideas
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
10 Jul 2001 20:25:40 -0700
Followup to: <20010711014918.76554.qmail@web14404.mail.yahoo.com>
By author: Rajeev Bector <rajeev_bector@yahoo.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> We are planning to develop a new IPC mechanism based on shared
> memory. The memory is allocated by a device driver in the kernel and
> mapped to various processes read only. Processes talk to the driver
> to write to the memory but they can directly read the memory (so its
> a 1-copy IPC mechanism).
>
> We also want to make this IPC mechanism persistent across
> application restarts. So that if an application crashes, when it
> comes back up, it can remap to its old queues and get its messages.
>
> Does anyone have experiences building such a mechanism ? Any
> pointers to reading material would be really appreciated ?
>
Why not just use mmap() on a file? That way you can even make it
zero-copy. Otherwise, mmap() readonly in all but one process ("the
driver").
Nothing needed in the kernel that isn't already there...
-hpa
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