> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petre Ovidiu PIRCALABU [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 08 January 2019 16:14
> To: Paul Durrant <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>; Wei Liu
> <[email protected]>; Razvan Cojocaru <[email protected]>; Konrad
> Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>; George Dunlap
> <[email protected]>; Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>; Ian
> Jackson <[email protected]>; Tim (Xen.org) <[email protected]>; Julien
> Grall <[email protected]>; Tamas K Lengyel <[email protected]>; Jan
> Beulich <[email protected]>; Roger Pau Monne <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/6] vm_event: Use slotted channels
> for sync requests.
> 
> On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 15:08 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Also, for the current vm_event implementation, other than using the
> > > hvm_params to specify the ring page gfn, I couldn't see any reason
> > > why
> > > it should be limited to HVM guests only. Is it feasible to assume
> > > the
> > > vm_event mechanism will not ever be extended to PV guests?
> > >
> >
> > Unless you limit things to HVM (and PVH) guests then I guess you'll
> > run into the same page ownership problems that ioreq server ran into
> > (due to a PV guest being allowed to map any page assigned to it...
> > including those that may be 'resources' it should not be able to see
> > directly). Any particular reason why you'd definitely want to support
> > pure PV guests?
> >
> >   Paul
> 
> No, but at this point I just want to make sure I'm not limiting the
> vm_events usage.

Ok, but given that a framework (i.e. ioreq) exists for HVM/PVH guests then IMO 
it makes sense to target those guests first and then figure out how to make 
things work for PV later if need be.

  Paul

> 
> Many thanks,
> Petre

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