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

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/3/07 09:13, "Herbert Xu" <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was actually thinking of Jose's scheme where it's mapped in on
> demand.  So you would still do your grant table map operation,
> but instead of mapping it in as we do now it would simply notify
> the hypervisor of the intention to map this page, and the hypervisor
> can then map it in when it actually faults.

That's not quite how Jose's patch works. The lazy mapping is done by the
guest in his patch.

If we're not going to go as far as supporting guest-visible 'p2m faults'
then I think overall your original patch is probably the best approach so
far. If I view the new hypercall as a special case of the existing unmap
(which is an unmap-to-zero-pte special case) then it's not so bad. At least
there should be very little new code in the hypervisor needed to implement
it. We have a little while longer to think about this since the patches
aren't for 3.0.5.

 -- Keir



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