Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: expose XENMEM_get_pod_target to subject domain

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 26.02.14 at 10:25, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 08:03 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Anyway, I also consider it odd to complain about this now when
>> the referenced discussion has happened weeks ago, with no
>> useful result.
> 
> IIRC George was on vacation and/or travelling for a conference back then
> (or maybe he was just back in town and buried in email, with the same
> affect)
> 
> Anyway, since George knows PoD better than any of us I think it is worth
> revisiting things with his input.
> 
> I would certainly prefer a solution which exposed some more semantically
> meaningful information (from the guest's PoV) which lets it do the right
> thing rather than just exposing the PoD internal accounting directly,
> since that seems like rather an implementation detail to me. e.g. what
> if we decide to make the PoD cache shared between a bunch of related
> guests (totally hypothetical) or back it with the normal page sharing or
> paging mechanisms? We don't want those sorts of changes to create a
> visible guest ABI difference.

So what's the counter proposal then?

Jan


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