Re: Why do we need lua in-tree again? Yet another call for actual evidence, please. (was Re: Moving Lua source codes)

["Matt W. Benjamin" <matt%linuxbox.com@localhost>]

Hi,

The linked research was performed on Linux, which has NFsv4.1 and pNFS client
implementations.  Evidently, you can do this kind of thing with an out-of-tree
Lua kernel extension.

Matt

----- "Taylor R Campbell" <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:

> 
>    [1] https://github.com/dergraf/PacketScript
> 
>    [2] http://www.pdsw.org/pdsw12/papers/grawinkle-pdsw12.pdf
> 
> In the two links you gave, I found precisely five lines of Lua code,
> buried in the paper, and those five lines seemed to exist only for
> the
> purpose of measuring how much overhead Lua adds to the existing pNFS
> code or something.

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