Re: [PATCH 1/6] staging: android: binder: Remove some funny &&usage

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Wed Jun 24 2009 - 20:20:32 EST


On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 02:01 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:

> What I really want to know, is how this relates to the vmsplice() and
> other zero-copy buffer passing schemes already in the kernel. I was
> sort of dreaming that D-Bus and other IPC could be accelerated on
> top of that.

Marcel had mentioned earlier in this thread that D-Bus could be
accelerated with shared memory or moving the dbus-daemon into the
kernel. splice() and vmplice() seem like fairly robust system calls. I
would think they could be used also ..

Daniel

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