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 >>> >> >> >======================== > ========================= > ========================