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Re: [Xen-devel] Why gnttab_grant_foreign_access() can only grantaccess for one page?



> There should be a hypercall to grow a domain's grant table. It's been on
> the todo list for a while. Want to knock something up?

I'd be able to review code etc for this, feel free to contact me on or off 
list.  It'll be useful for my work also.

Cheers,
Mark

>
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
> > thanks,
> > lily
> >
> > On 7/7/06, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >     > Lily Huang wrote:
> >     > > THis seems to be less efficient. Why cannot we allow this
> >
> > function
> >
> >     > > to grant access for mulitiple pages just remap function?
> >     >
> >     > With what frequency are multiple page grants requested?
> >
> >     You can always use multicalls for batches. In the current usage
> >     scenarios, grant tables are not typically used to map machine
> > contiguous
> >     regions.
> >
> >     Ian
>
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