[coyotos-dev] IPC redesign issues, goals, and options

[Sam Mason]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:24:46AM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:09 +0000, Sam Mason wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:19:57AM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > > I am inclined to keep the activation mechanism, but detach it entirely
> > > from the message payload delivery. I am inclined to deliver a
> > > soft-interrupt on message delivery.
> > 
> > I'm not entirely sure what you mean my "soft-interrupt".  But doesn't
> > this entail two context switches on message delivery?  The first to
> > enter the activation handler and the second to actually receive the
> > message.
> 
> Not necessarily. I think the right answer to this is "wait for spec 0.4
> and let's talk about it". That should be out in a couple of days.

Wow, I was expecting much more of a wait than that---hence asking.


  Sam