Hi ravi To be honest, I Myself don't know how this can happen and thats being my doubt too.(Anyway I have been asked to do and iam trying my best to complete it). cheers! Charumathi Krishnan. > > > > We have a little research team which tries various methods to speed > > up interprocess communication and this is going to be a part of it, > > which I was asked to implement. > > <snip> > > > I hope this explains u my position. > > Not really. > > > I am trying to implement a memory layer between the kernel and > > process, so that process can use it to communicate between each > > other. This is going to be a shared memory. > >It is not clear how you can speed up IPC when all you are doing is >using the existing shared memory mechanism. The only difference seems >to be when and by whom the shared memory segment is set up. By doing >this part in the kernel, you are only avoiding the usual shmget/shmat >calls. But how does that improve speed? You still need some way to >attach to the segment, and of course the basic IPC mechanism hasn't >changed any way. > >-Ravi. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness >http://health.yahoo.com >-- >Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. >Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ >FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > You Can If U think U Can _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
