[EROS-Arch] Re: using many keys

[Charles Landau]

Robert Wittams wrote:

> Is it better to use the capability pages, or the supernode,  or making a
> local tree of nodes, for storing large numbers of keys? I assume
> capability pages are no longer used...they seem to be missing from quite
> a lot of places.

Capability pages are passing into history, for the reasons given at the top
of http://www.eros-os.org/design-notes/CapabilityPages.html.

> Or is the key space proposal implemented yet? I could
> not find it. If this is the preferred method I will try to use that.

The key space proposal is not yet implemented. There is still (in my mind)
a design question about whether and how to allow a process to have more
than 32 key registers, and how that design relates to key spaces.

> Or
> maybe use the supernode for now and convert it.

That is a good plan. Converting shouldn't be hard.