RE: Guest-visible phys2mach part of Xen arch-neutral API? was: [Xen-devel] Uses of &frame_table[xfn]

[Kevin Fox <Kevin.Fox@xxxxxxx>]

There has been some discussion about some day using Xen on our large
Itanium cluster (~1000 nodes). I'm not sure if it would be possible to
use Xen on the cluster without driver domains though. Just food for
thought.

Kevin

PS. I'm fairly disappointed in the lack of focus that driver domains are
receiving in Xen. I use them on several machines (one in production) and
I think it counts among Xen's greatest features.

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 10:16 +0800, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >Sent: 2005å12æ29æ 21:48
> >
> >
> >On 29 Dec 2005, at 01:59, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >
> >>    IMO, I see the phys2mach mapping as a basic virtualization policy,
> >> instead of an architecture specific requirement. After adding
> >> phys2mach concept to XEN/IA64, we can reuse more common code without
> >> ifdef. Then correspondingly also need to add several necessary changes
> >> like x86: DMA, SWIOTLB, AGP, etc, to ensure legal machine address
> >> written into physical devices.
> >
> >This seems to make sense to me. How does ia64/xen work right now?
> >Machine addresses visible to domain0 and full virtualisation of
> >addresses exposed to other domains (with no way of seeing underlying
> >machine addresses)?
> >
> >  -- Keir
> 
> Yes, that's the current status: No way to see underlying machine address in 
> other domains and thus no way for driver domains.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> 
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