RE: grant table anxiety [was RE: [Xen-devel] GNTTABOP_unmap_grant_ref]

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've aired grievances against grant tables in other threads, 
> but now I'm getting worried all over again.  Your suggestions 
> give a hint of the intricate handling required to manage 
> shared pages.  IMHO, this pushes paravirtual guests to 
> unnatural lengths, not to mention prospects in pure-virtual 
> environments.

Allowing user space to get access to shared pages by allowing them to
map pages in a special device seems pretty sensible, and is pretty
trivial to implement in the kernel.

> Could we dispense with these complexities if a 3rd party 
> (Xen?) owned shared pages?  

No, the accounting issue is totally orthogonal. 

Ian

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