Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Add V4V to Xen

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

At 16:10 +0100 on 14 Jun (1339690244), Jean Guyader wrote:
> On 14/06 03:56, Tim Deegan wrote:
> > At 11:55 +0100 on 14 Jun (1339674908), Jean Guyader wrote:
> > > Are you talking about having different version of V4V driver running
> > > in the same VM?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > I don't think that is a problem they both interact with Xen via
> > > hypercall directly so if they follow the v4v hypercall interface it's
> > > all fine.
> > 
> > AFAICS if they both try to register the same port then one of them will
> > silently get its ring discarded.  And if they both try to communicate
> > with the same remote port their entries on the pending lists will get
> > merged (which is probably not too bad).  I think the possibility for
> > confusion depends on how you use the service.  Still, it seems better
> > than the xenstore case, anyway. :)
> > 
> 
> Not silently, register_ring will return an error.

Will it?  It looks to me like v4v_ring_add just clobbers the old MFN
list.

Tim.

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