As it is written.  Guests pull from the server on read  requests and servers
pull from the guests on write requests.

We seem to be missing an interrupt sequence donĀ¹t we?

Gary


On 4/3/09 6:15 PM, "Jeff Savit" <jsa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you mean 'pull' or 'poll' on read, or 'push' on write? :-)
> 
> In any case, Alan is right, and the lowest latency way for virtual machin
> es
> to share data is with a DCSS.
> 
> cheers, Jeff
> 
> 
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:47:58 -0500, Gary M. Dennis <gary.den...@mantissa.c
> om>
> wrote:
> 
>> >Something along these lines
>> >
>> >Guests pull on read
>> >Servers pull on write
>> >Async only
>> >
>> >
>> >--.  .-  .-.  -.--
>> >
>> >Gary Dennis
>> >Mantissa
>> >
>> >0 ... living between the zeroes ... 0
>> >
>> >On 4/3/09 4:26 PM, "Alan Altmark" <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> >
>>> >> On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 03:38 EDT, "Gary M. Dennis"
>>> >> <gary.den...@mantissa.com> wrote:
>>>> >>> What I was trying to determine if there was a way to use  ZFS on
>>> >> OpenSolaris
>>>> >>> System z as a high speed space management vehicle while bypassing
>>> >> conventional
>>>> >>> transport layers?  For example, let?s say there existed a way to push
> 
>>> >> data to
>>>> >>> the IO appliance cross-memory (guest to ZFZ, ZFS to guest)  such that
>  an
>>> >>
>>>> >>> interface in the appliance could act as a local proxy for each guest
>>> >> using the
>>>> >>> service.
>>> >>
>>> >> Just in case you are trying to connect Diag 0x248 with "push data" to
>>> >> OpenSolaris, don't bother.  First, Diag 0x248 is a read-only function.
> 
>>> >> Second, OpenSolaris, like Linux, is DAT ON.  That means they cannot cr
> eate
>>> >> or access Data Spaces.  Your only shared-memory solution is a DCSS.
>>> >>
>>> >> Alan Altmark
>>> >> z/VM Development
>>> >> IBM Endicott
>>> >>
>> >========================
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