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Re: [Xen-devel] event notify during netfront and netback setup in Xen3.1


  • To: "Zang Hongyong" <zanghongyong@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Grzegorz Miłoś" <gm281@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:36:43 +0100
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> hi
>  In Xen3.1 source
>  when setup
>   netfront: when netback changed XenBusState to InitWait, fuction 
> network_connect() called
>             in network_connect(),notify_remote_via_irq() was called, which 
> gives netback a kick.
>             then netfront changed Xenbusstate to Connected
>
>   but at the same time, netback has not bind its eventchannel to netfront 
> domain's event?
>   so how could this happen, when netback receive event from netfront domain?

Netfront allocates an unbound event channel in responce to the backend
entering InitWait state (network_connect() -> talk_to_backend() ->
setup_device() -> bind_listening_port_to_irqhandler() ->
bind_listening_port_to_irq() -> EVTCHNOP_alloc_unbound). Once the
channel is allocated, the frontend can queue events on it, even before
backend binds it. This happens later on, in responce to netfront
entering Connected state (bind_interdomain_evtchn_to_irqhandler() in
netif_map()).

Hope this helps
Gr(z)egor(z)

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