Re: What is domain creation flow-chart in XEND

[Nauzad Sadry <nauzad@gmail.com>]

Hello folks

how does XEND pass the information abt the control channel in DomainU??. 

I see xc_linux_build() function does set the control channel info, but
I do not see anybody in XEND using xc_linux_build (). Am I correct ??

>From what I am understanding x2d2 is like a miniXend for testing
purposes. The actual XEND does NOT communicate with x2d2.

Thanks

Nauzad

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:06:23 +0000, Mark Williamson <maw48@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >  From what I can tell, Linux always listens on event channel 1.  So,
> > Xend just binds a local port to the domains port 1.  After binding, it
> > maps a shared memory region and works on a ring queue passing back and
> > forth control_msg_t structures.  This is how virtual devices are setup.
> >
> > I imagine each device gets it's own channel but I do not know for sure.
> 
> Every domain has a "control interface" as you described, which is used for low
> bandwidth communications (console and various configuration messages).
> Amongst other things, the control channel is used to negotiate the locations
> of shared memory pages that the network and block drivers can use for
> high-bandwidth communications.
> 
> > The domain's kernel I believe.
> 
> See linux-2.6.10-sparse/arch/xen/kernel/ctrl_if.c and
> linux-2.6.10-sparse/include/asm-xen/ctrl_if.h for code relating to the kernel
> control interface driver.
> 
> > >If someone can point me to some document for more details I would
> > > appreciate it
> 
> Andy wrote an explanation of how the block device drivers work.  It's in
> docs/misc/blkif-drivers-explained.txt.  You might find some pertinent
> information there, particularly when you look at how the drivers talk to each
> other.
> 
> HTH,
> Mark
> 
> > I posted some documentation to xc.h.  This is where most of this work is
> > done.  I don't know of any documentation.  The bulk of all this is done
> > in libxc, xu.c (this binding implements a bunch of functionality), and
> > x2d2 (this isn't used by Xend but is a bit easier to understand than Xend).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >Nauzad
> > >
> > >
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