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* [PATCHv3 0/11] Xen: FIFO-based event channel ABI
@ 2013-09-13 16:56 David Vrabel
  2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 01/11] debug: remove some event channel info from the 'i' and 'q' debug keys David Vrabel
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From: David Vrabel @ 2013-09-13 16:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: Keir Fraser, David Vrabel, Jan Beulich

This is a complete implementation of the hypervisor parts of the
FIFO-based event channel ABI described in this design document:

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

Changes in draft E are:

- Control blocks are no longer required to be in the same page as the
  vcpu_info.
- Added padding to struct evtchn_init_control.

Remaining work:

* Extend libxl and xl to allow the event channel limit to be set.
  Without this DomUs are limited the default number of event channels
  (4096).  I use a trivial C program to set the limit.

* Decide whether EVTCHNOP_set_limit should be a DOMCTL instead.

* Allocation of struct event channels to use less memory when fewer
  event channels are in use. I plan to have d->evtchns point to a page
  contains N struct evtchns and M group pointers with the remainder
  event channels being indexed by group/bucket in patch 6.

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

Patch 5-6 expand the number of evtchn objects a domain may have to
changing how they are allocated.

Patch 7 adds the ABI.

Patch 8 adds the EVTCHNOP_set_priority implementation.  This will
return -ENOSYS for ABIs that do not support priority.

Patch 9-10 adds the EVTCHNOP_set_limit implementation and adds a
function to libxc. This will also work with the 2-level ABI.

Patch 11 adds the FIFO-based ABI implementation.

Changes in v3:

- Updates for Draft E of the design.
- Store priority in struct evtchn.
- Implement set_priority with generic code + hook.
- Implement set_limit and add libxc function.
- Add ABI specific output to 'e' debug key.

Changes in v2:

- 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.

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2013-09-13 16:56 [PATCHv3 0/11] Xen: FIFO-based event channel ABI David Vrabel
2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 01/11] debug: remove some event channel info from the 'i' and 'q' debug keys David Vrabel
2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 02/11] evtchn: refactor low-level event channel port ops David Vrabel
2013-09-15 13:06   ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-09-15 13:11     ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-09-16 10:08       ` David Vrabel
2013-09-15 13:20     ` Ian Campbell
2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 03/11] evtchn: print ABI specific state with the 'e' debug key David Vrabel
2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 04/11] evtchn: use a per-domain variable for the max number of event channels David Vrabel
2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 05/11] evtchn: dynamically allocate d->evtchn David Vrabel
2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 06/11] evtchn: alter internal object handling scheme David Vrabel
2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 07/11] evtchn: add FIFO-based event channel ABI David Vrabel
2013-09-16  6:59   ` Jan Beulich
2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 08/11] evtchn: implement EVTCHNOP_set_priority and add the set_priority hook David Vrabel
2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 09/11] evtchn: implement EVTCHNOP_set_limit David Vrabel
2013-09-13 18:32   ` Daniel De Graaf
2013-09-16  7:07   ` Jan Beulich
2013-09-16 10:00     ` David Vrabel
2013-09-16 10:33       ` Jan Beulich
2013-09-16 10:57         ` David Vrabel
2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 10/11] libxc: add xc_evtchn_set_limit() David Vrabel
2013-09-13 16:56 ` [PATCH 11/11] evtchn: add FIFO-based event channel hypercalls and port ops David Vrabel

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