From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <47974C78.7050509@qumranet.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:17:28 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1 References: <478E4356.7030303@qumranet.com> <20080117162302.GI7170@v2.random> <478F9C9C.7070500@qumranet.com> <20080117193252.GC24131@v2.random> <20080121125204.GJ6970@v2.random> <4795F9D2.1050503@qumranet.com> <20080122144332.GE7331@v2.random> <20080122200858.GB15848@v2.random> <4797384B.7080200@redhat.com> <20080123131939.GJ26420@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20080123131939.GJ26420@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Robin Holt Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , Christoph Lameter , Andrea Arcangeli , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , linux-mm@kvack.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Hugh Dickins List-ID: Robin Holt wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:51:23PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > >> Jumping in here, looks like this could develop into a direction useful >> for Xen. >> >> Background: Xen has a mechanism called "grant tables" for page sharing. >> Guest #1 can issue a "grant" for another guest #2, which in turn then >> can use that grant to map the page owned by guest #1 into its address >> space. This is used by the virtual network/disk drivers, i.e. typically >> Domain-0 (which has access to the real hardware) maps pages of other >> guests to fill in disk/network data. >> > > This is extremely similar to what XPMEM is providing. > > I think that in Xen's case the page tables are the normal cpu page tables, not an external mmu (like RDMA, kvm, and XPMEM). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org