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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch] the interface of invalidating qemu mapcache


  • To: "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx>, "Li, Xin B" <xin.b.li@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:16:16 +0000
  • Delivery-date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:16:33 -0800
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch] the interface of invalidating qemu mapcache

Looks good, I'll check it in.

 -- Keir

On 27/1/07 11:46 am, "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Keir,
> Attached is the latest version of the patch.
> Thanks very much for your comments!
> 
>  -- Dexuan
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 2007年1月27日 18:41
>> To: Cui, Dexuan; Li, Xin B; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch] the interface of invalidating qemu
>> mapcache
>> 
>> On 27/1/07 10:29 am, "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Keir,
>>> Attached is the updated version. The exported qemu_invalidate_map_cache()
>>> just
>>> blows the entire qemu mapcache.
>>> Would you please give some comments? Thanks a lot!
>> 
>> Allocating the PCI resources with an incrementing region_num counter is
>> pointless (and in fact confusing) given that the BAR for mmio and portio
>> resources are hardcoded as 1 and 0 (respectively) in the pv-on-hvm driver
>> code. Also the existing portio resource is (I believe) a placeholder. Thus
>> you don't need to create a new resource -- use the first port of resource
>> region 0 instead. The existing read/write handler registrations in
>> platform_io_map() are pointless. You can remove them and replace with a
>> single-byte write handler to blow the mapcache -- there's no need to install
>> handlers for 2- or 4-byte accesses, nor for read accesses.
>> 
>> -- Keir



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