Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 5 RFC] blktap3: Introduce xenio daemon (coordinate blkfront with tapdisk).

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 14:20 +0000, Thanos Makatos wrote:
> This patch series introduces the xenio daemon.

Can we call it something less generic?

>  This daemon is responsible for
> coordinating blkfront and tapdisk, when blkfront changes state. It does so by
> monitoring XenStore for blkfront state changes. The daemon creates/destroys 
> the
> shared ring, instructs the tapdisk to connect to/disconnect from it, and
> manages the state of the back-end.

So xenio creates the ring and manages xenstore? How does tapdisk get
access to the ring?

> 
> This series requires the RFC series described in
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-11/msg00875.html
> in order to compile.
> 
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