Caps status

[Matthew Dillon]

:Cool... sounds like out of band mach messaging in a way.  Except that
:I think it does full COW for certain sized messages.  Its more like
:a shadow copy until some modification is done which of course means
:the pages are shared and the message reception "appears" very fast.

    Well, the absolute fastest way is to maintain some persistent shared
    memory between client and server and store the messages and replies
    inline.  Any time you have to continually map and unmap memory you are
    not going to have good performance (and the current caps interface has
    the same issue with its copyin's and copyout's).  

    Shared memory isn't a bad way to go but it does create restrictions on
    the message size.  We could in fact support a persistent shared memory
    scheme by adding a virtual pointer feature where the client and server
    negotiate a shared memory segment.  Then just the data pointers
    are passed back and forth in the messages and not the data itself.

						-Matt