From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>, Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: x86 swiotlb questions
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:47:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C1A8823F.6278%keir@xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4582C365.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
On 15/12/06 14:46, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>> Yes, that would be great. There are a couple of minor caveats around special
>> semantics of the Xen heap but those could do with cleaning up and being made
>> explicit anyway.
>
> Mind adding a little more detail here?
Some allocations need to be below 4GB (e.g., domain pointers, as they get
pickled into a 32-bit field in page structures). These should use an
explicit address-width parameter to the allocator.
Pages allocated from the 'Xen heap' but shared with a domain have special
semantics when their refcount falls to zero. This includes shared_info and
grant-table pages. We may need an extra PGC_ bit to flag these pages.
That's all I can think of.
-- Keir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-15 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-15 12:50 x86 swiotlb questions Jan Beulich
2006-12-15 13:35 ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-15 13:53 ` Jan Beulich
2006-12-15 14:03 ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-15 14:17 ` Jan Beulich
2006-12-15 14:19 ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-15 14:46 ` Jan Beulich
2006-12-15 16:47 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2006-12-15 16:19 ` Alan
2006-12-18 7:44 ` Jan Beulich
2006-12-18 9:39 ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-19 12:48 ` Jan Beulich
2006-12-19 14:14 ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-19 14:39 ` Jan Beulich
2006-12-19 14:46 ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-19 17:07 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-12-20 16:40 ` Jan Beulich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-22 14:49 Jan Beulich
2006-12-25 4:50 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-12-25 10:20 ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-22 16:20 Jan Beulich
2006-12-22 21:00 ` Herbert Xu
2006-12-23 9:48 ` Keir Fraser
2006-12-30 17:32 Jan Beulich
2006-12-30 17:47 ` Keir Fraser
2007-01-02 8:39 ` Jan Beulich
2007-01-03 7:10 ` Jan Beulich
2007-01-03 9:32 ` Keir Fraser
2007-01-03 11:01 ` Jan Beulich
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