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Re: [Xen-devel] Event channel questions




On 1 Aug 2005, at 21:37, Carl Holtje ;021;vcsg6; wrote:

Can someone help define 'little bandwidth' and 'high-performance' in less
than relataive terms? What is an appropriate application of the event
channel if it is low bandwidth?

Little bandwidth == one 'sticky bit' of information that is cleared by the receiver. It's an event pending bit.

High performance == when you send an event, teh receiver will receive an upcall sometime later. The mechanisms involved are simple so the CPU overhead is dominated by context switch time, if a context switch is required.

 -- Keir



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