RE: [Xen-devel] [BUNDLE] Testing a simpler inter-domain transport

["Yang, Fred" <fred.yang@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

>From Xen summit, isn't it to be more P2M liked approach due to
consideration on driver domain and domain0 needs to get P2M for
VBD/VNIF?   

Don't remember there is decision on taking Hypercall only approach and
dropped P2M table lookup.  Any justification here?

-Fred

Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote:
> (I'm sure you meant PPC *and* ia64 ;*)
> 
> On just a quick skim, one thing to note:
> 
> IIRC from the summit, domain0 and driver domains for
> neither PPC nor ia64 will have a p2m lookup table so
> a p2m translation will require a hypercall. So
> while virt_to_machine is cheap for domains on x86,
> it is not on PPC and ia64.  If HYPERVISOR_share can
> take physical addresses instead of machine addresses
> (with Xen doing the phys_to_machine part of the
> translation), I think the code would work better
> for PPC and ia64, as well as better hide the
> virtual->physical->machine memory abstraction.
> 
> Dan
> 
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