Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: [0/2] Remove netloop by lazy copying in netback

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/3/07 08:53, "Herbert Xu" <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Also bear in mind the plan to avoid the grant mapping at all in the
>> direct-to-wire transmit case. This also will rely on a #PF (or some other
>> fault, potentially) if the guest tries to access that pseudophysical page of
>> memory. If we can work out a way to make this work on ia64 then the
>> delayed-copy implementation problems are solved too.
> 
> That's to avoid the TLB flush costs, right?
> 
> On ia64 (or anything other than x86-32 for that matter) you have
> enough virtual address bits to map the entire physical memory
> into dom0 (or the driver domain) so that could also be used to
> avoid TLB flushes.

Once we have IOMMU support we want to completely close off driver domain
access to arbitrary memory (which they currently have via DMA). Giving a
mapping of all physical memory would be a step in quite the opposite
direction.

 -- Keir



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