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Re: [Xen-devel] comment request: dom0 dma on large memory systems

To: "Scott Parish" <srparish@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] comment request: dom0 dma on large memory systems
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 09:58:30 +0100
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Yes, something like this is obviously required, and introducing a concept of zones seems a sensible way to go. I haven't looked at your patch in great detail but it looks along the right lines. :-)

 -- Keir

On 3 Jun 2005, at 08:35, Scott Parish wrote:

The attached patch is a (non-functional) prototype of my proposed
solution to the xen. The idea is to add a third MEMZONE for
dma'able memory, change the alloc_domheap_pages() interface so the
caller can request only dma memory if needed. Finally, internal to
common/page_alloc.c, split memory between MEMZONE_DOM and MEMZONE_DMADOM
based on the address.


proposed solution to dom0:

Dom0 might have memory allocated to it from both high and low memory.
The easiest solution would probably be to scan for and preallocate a
chunk of memory that will work for dma, something like what pci-gart.c
does. (or work on letting pci-gart.c work under xen)


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