Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 2] mem_event: use different ringbuffers for share, paging and access

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

Hi, 

At 14:15 +0200 on 07 Sep (1315404930), Olaf Hering wrote:
> mem_event: use different ringbuffers for share, paging and access
> 
> Up to now a single ring buffer was used for mem_share, xenpaging and
> xen-access.  Each helper would have to cooperate and pull only its own
> requests from the ring.  Unfortunately this was not implemented. And
> even if it was, it would make the whole concept fragile because a crash
> or early exit of one helper would stall the others.
> 
> What happend up to now is that active xenpaging + memory_sharing would
> push memsharing requests in the buffer. xenpaging is not prepared for
> such requests.
> 
> This patch creates an independet ring buffer for mem_share, xenpaging
> and xen-access and adds also new functions to enable xenpaging and
> xen-access. The xc_mem_event_enable/xc_mem_event_disable functions will
> be removed. The various XEN_DOMCTL_MEM_EVENT_* macros were cleaned up.
> Due to the removal the API changed, so the SONAME will be changed too.

The Xen-side changes look OK to me.  I'll leave it to the tools
maintainers to comment on changing the libxc interface and version.

Cheers,

Tim.

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