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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Josh Zhao <joshsystem@gmail.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: How ARM Xen process the harddisk requests from DomU
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:39:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1376426363.9273.29.camel@hastur.hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOYkbaj2-2wn0HSA_XRs65VPj+Lsq85EzWALRU_nucVhGAidQA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 12:06 +0800, Josh Zhao wrote:

> I am wondering how arm xen process the harddisk requests from DomU, is
> there a daemon in dom0 to do this work?

Xen on ARM supports only PV devices, so the PV disk backend will deal
with it. I'm not sure anyone has tried qdisk on ARM, although it should
work fine, but I expect most people are currently using the in-kernel
blkback driver in their driver domain.

Ian.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-12  4:06 How ARM Xen process the harddisk requests from DomU Josh Zhao
2013-08-12  6:23 ` Josh Zhao
2013-08-13 20:40   ` Ian Campbell
2013-08-13 20:39 ` Ian Campbell [this message]

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