Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: [0/2] Remove netloop by lazy copying in netback

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 08:36:39AM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> This is quite a shame, since the swap-grant-mapping-for-memory hypercall
> simply is not very nice. What if we wanted to swap a grant mapping for
> another grant mapping in future? Or some other kind of mapping? We end up
> needing a new, complicated, grant-table hypercall every time. Or in six
> months time we decide this wasn't such a good idea, implement another
> scheme, but have this special-purpose grant-table hypercall hanging around
> unused forever more.
> 
> Could we shatter the ia64 guest large mappings easily? They have no benefit
> on Xen anyway apart from some inconsequential memory saving.

There is another way.  Instead of expanding add_to_physmap which
doesn't quite fit our semantics, let's add a new operation that
*actually* swaps two p2m entries.  Then it can be used as follows:

        a) new_addr = alloc_page
        b) memcpy(new_addr, addr, len)
        c) p2m_swap(__pa(new_addr), __pa(addr))
        d) grant_unmap(__pa(new_addr))

Cheers,
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