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Re: [Xen-devel] [BUNDLE] Testing a simpler inter-domain transport

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [BUNDLE] Testing a simpler inter-domain transport
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:04:40 +1100
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On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 05:12 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:38:51PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >     dom0# modprobe ohlan create
> >     ohlan: created lan eth1 at address 0x1b6000
> >     domU# modprobe ohlan address=0x1b6000
> > 
> > Feedback welcome!
> 
>   point to point performances looks good, but I'm starting to worry about
> thing like group communication in a large Xen machine, assuming you can run
> a few dozens domains consurrently, it may be useful to get some efficient
> muticast based communication mechanism, the shared pages should help in some
> ways (usuall memory/speed tradeoff though). Did you look at this ?

Yes, you can add other domains to the same lan:

        domU2# modprobe ohlan address=0x1b6000

Currently limited to 32 partitions for no particularly good reason.
Note that like a real LAN, one badly behaved partition can block
communication for the others they share the lan with...

Sorry for the confusion!
Rusty.
-- 
 ccontrol: http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/ccontrol


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