On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 10:35:11AM +0000, tosher 1 wrote: > I was trying to understand the following things regarding the PV driver. > > 1. Who create frontend and backend instances?
That depends on where the frontend and backends run. For example Linux blkback is implemented as a module of the Linux kernel. Linux blkfront is also a Linux kernel module. OTOH there's also a block backend in QEMU called qdisk, which is obviously implemented in QEMU. I'm however unsure by what you mean with instance, so you might have to clarify exactly what you mean in order to get a more concise reply. > 2. When are these instances created? The xenstore entries are created at domain creation by the toolstack (xl/libxl). The connection between the frontend and the backend happens when the frontend driver loads and initializes the connection. > 3. How xenbus directories are created? What is the hierarchy of the > directories? They are created by the toolstack during domain creation: xl/libxl. There are documents in the public headers that describe the expected and optional xenstore nodes for each device, see: http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=tree;f=xen/include/public/io > 4. What is the role of "vifname" and who sets it? That's set in the guest config file [0] and then it's the hotplug script the one in charge of renaming the interface from it's original name into the desired one [1]. Roger. [0] https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/man/xl-network-configuration.5.html#vifname [1] http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=tools/hotplug/Linux/vif-common.sh#l67 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
