Re: multi page memory object operations

2017-07-31 Thread Brent W. Baccala
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:21 AM, Richard Braun wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 10:20:55PM -0400, Brent W. Baccala wrote: > > > Does anybody know the history of multi page requests? Was it ever > > implemented in the kernel? > > Maksym Planeta worked on it as part of the 2012 GSoC. I tried to re

Re: multi page memory object operations

2017-07-31 Thread Richard Braun
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 10:20:55PM -0400, Brent W. Baccala wrote: > It seems that the current libpager's data-request and data-unlock routines > only handle single page requests, while the Mach documentation suggests > that the kernel can make multi page requests using these routines. No, the kern

[GSoC 2017] Misc

2017-07-31 Thread Joan Lledó
At this time, the only functionality provided by pfinet and pending to be implemented in the LwIP translator is the --peer options, everything else is done. From now on, most of the work will consist on polishing and fixing bugs, so I'll probably talk about many different topics in each post. The