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[Xen-devel] RE: Questions about device/event channels in Xen.

To: "Liang Yang" <multisyncfe991@xxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: Questions about device/event channels in Xen.
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:38:29 +0100
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I have no idea on any of the below questions. Perhaps you may want to
send it to xen-devel. 

--
Mats 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liang Yang [mailto:multisyncfe991@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 15 March 2007 22:15
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Petersson, Mats
> Subject: Questions about device/event channels in Xen.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just have several questions about device and event channel:
> 1. From the implementation point of view, are device and 
> event channel the 
> same (i.e. both based on shared memory)?
> 
> 2. In Xen papers, it is said up to 1024 channels are 
> supported per domain. 
> Does 1024 include both device channel and event channel?
> 
> 3. Are these device/event channels allocated dynamically or 
> statically for 
> each domain?
> 
> 4. It seems I need to allocate one device channel per device, 
> is this true?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Liang
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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