DBus in the kernel?

Kimmo Hämäläinen kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com
Tue Jan 5 05:32:08 PST 2010


On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 14:26 +0100, ext Ville M. Vainio wrote:
> 2010/1/5 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>:
> 
> > Shared memory implementation would remove the daemon also, and reduce
> > memory copies, but I guess it's too tricky to implement.
> 
> Did someone try it?

There has been lot of talks to implement it. Nokia even had a project
once to do it but something happened to it :P

> That being said, can't we get zero-copy already with peer-to-peer dbus
> connection? It seems to be somewhat unsupported (or not widely used at
> least), but I guess it has problems of its own.

I think that works so that the other client is actually working as a
D-Bus server, or maybe there is some more convenient way?

-Kimmo




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