From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: [RFC 0 PATCH 3/3] PVH dom0: construct_dom0 changes Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 11:01:22 +0100 Message-ID: <5253D7F2.9040505@eu.citrix.com> References: <1380142988-9487-1-git-send-email-mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> <1380142988-9487-4-git-send-email-mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> <5244064102000078000F69AF@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20130926171737.071f118f@mantra.us.oracle.com> <524547CF02000078000F73F7@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20131002175358.5f31579c@mantra.us.oracle.com> <524E820002000078000F8C16@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20131007175852.6583ea0d@mantra.us.oracle.com> <5253D58602000078000F975C@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <5253D87802000078000F9771@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <5253D2E5.6040107@eu.citrix.com> <5253F31702000078000F9823@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta4.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VTU6n-0005NI-IX for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:01:41 +0000 In-Reply-To: <5253F31702000078000F9823@nat28.tlf.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: xen-devel , keir.xen@gmail.com, Lars Kurth List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 10/08/2013 10:57 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 08.10.13 at 11:39, George Dunlap wrote: >> If it were just a question of cleaning up those bits, I could probably >> have another draft posted sometime this week. But if we're stepping >> back and looking at whether this is the right approach, or whether >> something like Tim has suggested -- basically making PVH to be HVM minus >> qemu plus a handful of hypercalls, and most of the changes in the domain >> builder rather than in Xen -- that will take a bit longer, particularly >> because it would probably mean me having to understand and modify the >> Linux side of things as well. At this point I'm not really sure what >> the best approach is going forward. > > Indeed, this all sounds more like being in need of a discussion on > the summit then (which however would very likely mean that this > won't make 4.4). Hmm, which will make my "PVH technical deep-dive" talk a bit challenging to write. :-) Lars, any suggestions? I could just back out the talk (which would reduce my talk-writing load a bit), or I could try to talk about things in general and the issues we've been discussing. -George