Re: [PATCH 0/8] MUSE: Userspace backed MTD v3

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Wed Feb 10 2021 - 06:03:42 EST


On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:22 AM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In MUSE one use case would be attaching two distinct (variable length) buffers to a
> > single FUSE request, in both directions.
> > If I read fuse_do_ioctl() correctly, it attaches always a single buffer per request
> > but does multiple requests.
>
> Right.
>
> > In MUSE we cold go the same path and issue up to two requests.
> > One for in-band and optionally a second one for the out-of-band data.
> > Hmmm?
>
> Does in-band and OOB data need to be handled together? If so, then
> two requests is not a good option.

They can be handled separately. All I need to figure who to abstract this nicely
in libfuse.

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Thanks,
//richard