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| author | Ian Moffett <ian@osmora.org> | 2025-04-14 02:49:08 -0400 |
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| committer | Ian Moffett <ian@osmora.org> | 2025-04-14 02:49:08 -0400 |
| commit | 01bef10a33e9d4e1dc9f14258ef5b1f144544741 (patch) | |
| tree | 50d2e458283c85885dabf2e1744019f123d03a11 /share/docs/ideas | |
| parent | b8f771b1566b7bb8a44402296c0410025e3e555f (diff) | |
ideas: kport: Add concept of shadow byte regions
Signed-off-by: Ian Moffett <ian@osmora.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'share/docs/ideas')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/docs/ideas/kport.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/docs/ideas/kport.txt b/share/docs/ideas/kport.txt index b9ffc6d..de3a4b0 100644 --- a/share/docs/ideas/kport.txt +++ b/share/docs/ideas/kport.txt @@ -73,4 +73,7 @@ Description: KPORT facilitates seamless low-latency access to dedicated - The kport pool MUST have no low-level memory caching Notes: The shadow layer exists as a sandbox to isolate the backing resource - between itself and the kport layer. + between itself and the kport layer. It SHOULD contain a "shadow byte region" + (SBR), that is, an area reserved for shadow bytes used to detect clobbering + and allowing the kernel to respond accordingly (i.e., defer next write-back + and kill the process, among other things...) |