From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Holt Subject: Re: [PATCH] export notifier #1 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:58:39 -0600 Message-ID: <20080123195839.GK26420@sgi.com> References: <4795F9D2.1050503@qumranet.com> <20080122144332.GE7331@v2.random> <20080122200858.GB15848@v2.random> <20080122223139.GD15848@v2.random> <479716AD.5070708@qumranet.com> <20080123105246.GG26420@sgi.com> <20080123120446.GF15848@v2.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , steiner-sJ/iWh9BUns@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Avi Kivity , kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, daniel.blueman-xqY44rlHlBpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, Robin Holt , Hugh Dickins To: Christoph Lameter Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:48:43AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:52:47AM -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > > > But 100 callouts holding spinlocks will not work for our implementation > > > and even if the callouts are made with spinlocks released, we would very > > > strongly prefer a single callout which messages the range to the other > > > side. > > > > But you take the physical address and turn into mm+va with your rmap... > > The remote mm+va or a local mm+va? To be more complete, the phys is pointing to a xpmem_segment+va and the xpmem_segment points to the mm. The seg describes a window into the source processes virtual address space. Seems somewhat analogous to the Xen grant, but I do not know. Thanks, Robin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/