Sanya is correct.<div><br></div><div>You would need to write a device driver that implements the block device interface and also provides a conduit to userspace; probably a character device node which Erlang could read and write. After being spoiled by Erlang, writing linux device drivers in C will make you want to rip your hair out. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Incidentally, people abuse the existing NBD client driver to write their own userspace block devices. You could easily do the same without having to touch kernel code at all.</div><div><br></div><div>
Dan.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Motiejus Jakštys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:desired.mta@gmail.com">desired.mta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br>
<br>
I am thinking of a way for Linux kernel driver to communicate with<br>
Erlang node. The purpose is send binary blobs and have some logic:<br>
* The blob has been ack'ed by erlang node<br>
* Some business operation has been completed with the blob (by node)<br>
<br>
C node seems to be the perfect match. Is there anything I should know<br>
before starting messing around? Any possible gotchas running Erlang node<br>
in kernel space? Has anybody tried that?<br>
<br>
What I am trying to do<br>
======================<br>
<br>
I am thinking of implementing NBD stack with Erlang and C. NBD server is<br>
easy (100% userspace), the client is more tricky, since device driver<br>
code has to be kernel space.<br>
<br>
NBD-client would consist of two parts:<br>
* nbd.c that implements block device interface and talks to Erlang node<br>
* Erlang node that communicates with another Erlang node nbd-server<br>
(which does the "business" part with the blob -- writes to disk)<br>
<br>
RFC<br>
===<br>
<br>
For me distinction between "client" and "server" is unclear in the<br>
tutorial: <a href="http://www.erlang.org/doc/tutorial/cnode.html" target="_blank">http://www.erlang.org/doc/tutorial/cnode.html</a> Could somebody<br>
explain it from the higher perspective?<br>
<br>
I have never mixed C and Erlang before, and would appreciate some light<br>
on C nodes generally. What is a C node from the system point of view?<br>
Does it use sockets, pipes? What OS processes/threads does it spawn?<br>
<br>
Many thanks,<br>
Motiejus<br>
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