On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 7:18 AM Petre Pircalabu <[email protected]> wrote: > > This patchset adds a new mechanism of sending synchronous vm_event > requests and handling vm_event responses without using a ring. > As each synchronous request pauses the vcpu until the corresponding > response is handled, it can be stored in a slotted memory buffer > (one per vcpu) shared between the hypervisor and the controlling domain. > > The main advantages of this approach are: > - the ability to dynamicaly allocate the necessary memory used to hold > the requests/responses (the size of vm_event_request_t/vm_event_response_t > can grow unrestricted by the ring's one page limitation) > - the ring's waitqueue logic is unnecessary in this case because the > vcpu sending the request is blocked until a response is received.
Hi Petre, could you push this series as a git branch somewhere? Thanks, Tamas _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
