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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Control panel changes for IA64/VTI

To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Control panel changes for IA64/VTI
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 09:14:56 +0100
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On 23 Oct 2005, at 04:53, Tian, Kevin wrote:

BTW, the reason for an ia64 specific get_pfn_list (by Matt) is that machine pages for domain on ia64 are allocated on demand. So there's requirement for parameters to contain start_pfn and nr_pages so that Xen can allocate necessary pages for that specific range. On x86 side, since all the pages are allocated when domain creation, get_pfn_list is aimed to query once for all pages and so the parameter can be only nr_pages. Just the background here. ;-)

We could have a common interface then. All the uses of get_pfn_list in common or x86 code will have start_pfn==0.

The patches look okay, although the Python bits aren't particularly pretty.

 -- Keir


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