Re: CVS commit: src/tests/net/icmp

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On 12.07.2010 18:41, Antti Kantee wrote:
> On Mon Jul 12 2010 at 18:32:01 +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
>> On 12.07.2010 18:03, Antti Kantee wrote:
>>> Now, why do you expect this to not work like it does with the current
>>> style of dom0? ... aah, currently everything just goes to dom0, and
>>> now you'd need to pick which server can actually service your request?
>>> While I'm not familiar with the Xen ecosystem (buzzword!!), from the
>>> technical perspective it looks like this falls under "SMOP".
>>
>> Huh? On what ground?
> 
> Routing is legwork: you add source/destination information and then pass
> the request/response to the right place (?)

Sounds to be simple that way yes :o

>> My initial step would be to have a block backend driver running in
>> userland, so I can make it run as a standalone server. Purpose is to
>> help diagnosing errors in a more graceful manner. I lost tremendous time
>> tracking a DoS issue between frontend and backend drivers for domain
>> migration, for one stupid reason: the backend caused a DoS to the rest
>> of the *dom0* kernel, without even being capable of breaking into ddb...
> 
> Ok, now I'm confused again.  If you want to make it run in dom0 userspace,
> what is your interest with the hypercall api?  Or is that just the
> initial step?  I thought you wanted multiple "dom0"s.

Initial step.

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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