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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Xen: FIFO-based event channel ABI
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 19:08:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1376071720-17644-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> (raw)

This is an RFC of the FIFO-based event channel ABI described in this
design document:

http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dvrabel/event-channels-D.pdf

Changes in draft D include:

- Only Xen writes to the HEAD field in the control block

- Added a link_bits field to EVTCHNOP_init_control to return the
  number of valid bits for the LINK field.

Patch 1-4 do some preparatory work for supporting alternate ABIs.

Patch 5-8 expand the number of evtchn objects a domain may have to
changing how they are allocated.

Patch 7-8 add the ABI and the implementation.  Patch 8 list some of
the known limitations with this RFC implementation.

Changes in v1:

- Updates for Draft D of the design.
- 130,000+ event channels are now supported.
- event_port.c -> event_2l.c and only contains 2l functions.
- Addresses various review comments
  - int -> unsigned in lots of places
  - use write_atomic() to set HEAD
  - removed MAX_EVTCHNS
  - evtchn_ops are const.
- Pack struct evtchns better to reduce memory needed.

David

             reply	other threads:[~2013-08-09 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-09 18:08 David Vrabel [this message]
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] debug: remove some event channel info from the 'i' and 'q' debug keys David Vrabel
2013-08-15 13:55   ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] evtchn: refactor low-level event channel port ops David Vrabel
2013-08-15 14:05   ` Jan Beulich
2013-09-06 14:25     ` David Vrabel
2013-09-06 14:55       ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 3/8] evtchn: add a hook to bind an event port to a VCPU David Vrabel
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 4/8] evtchn: use a per-domain variable for the max number of event channels David Vrabel
2013-08-15 14:09   ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 5/8] evtchn: dynamically allocate d->evtchn David Vrabel
2013-08-15 14:10   ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 6/8] evtchn: alter internal object handling scheme David Vrabel
2013-08-15 14:21   ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-15 15:46     ` David Vrabel
2013-08-16  7:14       ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-16 16:55   ` Wei Liu
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 7/8] evtchn: add FIFO-based event channel ABI David Vrabel
2013-08-15 14:25   ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 8/8] evtchn: add FIFO-based event channel hypercalls and port ops David Vrabel
2013-08-16 16:33   ` Wei Liu
2013-08-19 10:32     ` David Vrabel
2013-08-19 10:46       ` Wei Liu
2013-08-23 10:33   ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-23 11:00     ` David Vrabel
2013-08-12 13:06 ` [RFC PATCH 0/8] Xen: FIFO-based event channel ABI George Dunlap
2013-08-12 13:49   ` David Vrabel
2013-08-16 16:55 ` Wei Liu

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