Re: userspace block driver?

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On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 
> Has anybody put any thought towards how a userspace block driver would work?
> 
> Consider a block device implemented via an SSL network connection.  I don't
> want to put SSL in the kernel, which means the only other alternative is to
> pass data to/from a userspace daemon.

I am afraid this is impossible without some heavy infrastructure work.
You will almost inevitably deadlock. Yes, you can mlock() your driver, but 
that still will not tell the kernel that GFP_KERNEL must be replaced with 
GFP_NOIO if it is triggered by syscalls you are doing.

	Regards
		Oliver

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