Re: Alternative network stack design (was: Re: Potential use case for opaque space bank: domain factored network stack
"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.hurd.l4 |
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| Organization | The EROS Group, LLC |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 00:51 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > At Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:01:51 -0500, > "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[email protected]> wrote: > > This sounds like you intend to have all network buffers owned by the > > network subsystem. If so, you have re-invented denial of service. > > > > Could you clarify whether this is the case? > > I don't think so. The effect of the proposal is intended to be the > following: Pages can be "tagged" so that they can be made opaque by > certain designated (and thus authorized) subsystems only. Ownership > of the resource remains within the party who did the tagging. I think > that this description catches the main idea. This begins to smell like dead fish. What this proposal is saying is: We think that opaque pages are bad for some reason, but we can't find a clean way to get rid of them and do effective resource accounting, so we are restricting their use to the Hurd-NG gods. How is this position any different from RIAA restricting my use of music? -- Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D. Managing Director The EROS Group, LLC +1 443 927 1719 x5100