Re: simple backend, frontend

[Deepak Manohar <mjdeepak@gmail.com>]

Hi Keir,



> To set up an event channel and shared memory between two domains you
> need some out-of-band communication, which may or may not be xend.
> Instead the communication could be done via an interdomain IP network,
> for example. However you arrange it, each domain probably needs to
> know the domid of the other guy. Also both ends need to know the
> address of the page they are to share, and the remote port for teh
> shared event channel.
> 
>  -- Keir
> 

 ok lets say that via some out of band comm channel i inform both
domains about the remote port of the shared event channel and the
address of the shared page.

 can u tell me in which file is the api to perform operations on a
shared event channel? is it in xen/common/event_channel.c or is it in
linux-2.6.9-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/evtchn/evtchn.c or
linux-2.6.9-xen-sparse/arch/xen/kernel/evtchn.c

im confused which of the above api is accessible for a module in the
xenolinux kernel.

further more why arent these files in the linux-2.4.27-xen-sparse
directory? (everything works fine so it is not a prob - but i thought
the same file structure might have been followed for 2.4 and 2.6)

Thanks.

Deepak



On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:22:14 +0000, Keir Fraser
<keir.fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> >  Now if I need to add another custom backend using the same method as
> > the netif or blkif backends dont I have to modify Xend as well?
> >
> > Is there a simpler way of establishing event channels between domains
> > by directly accessing the API in xen/common/event_channel.c
> >
> >  Some assumptions that Im making - the frontend will be started only
> > after the backend is running. Im primarily going to be using this
> > frontend/backend for transferring large data between a user domain and
> > the control domain.  So I will have to establish shared mem pages as
> > well.
>


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