Re: [Xen-devel] FIFO-based event channel ABI design (draft B)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 15.02.13 at 16:17, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 15/02/13 15:05, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Additionally, I think the number of significant bits of the LINK field
>> should actually be obtained from the hypervisor, rather than being
>> baked at 17 (for the time being). This again is an implementation
>> detail (and the value could easily be command line controllable).
> 
> I'd considered something like this but decided to defer this to a future
> date when it needed to be extended.
> 
> How about adding an EVTCHNOP_get_limit which gets the maximum permitted
> port?  The guest can then round up the result of this to get the maximum
> number of LINK bits.

I'd actually want to make this an output of the setup operation.
Whether to return a bit count or the number of ports is secondary
to me.

Jan


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