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Re: [Xen-devel] Grant Table Hyper Calls For Sharing Memory
Hope I'm not mistaken, but I believe this discussion only revolves
around the fact that you don't need hypercalls to *share* pages. The
gnttab hypercall interface is only needed to *map* shared pages, not to
let other domains access a hvm's memory.
Sharing a page only requires the owner to set appropriate permissions in
her own grant table. That's just a bit of store and cmpxchg. No
hypercalling involved.
Cheers,
Daniel
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 14:03 +0800, Kumar, Venkat wrote:
> I was following an email chain in the xen mailing list on HVM
> hypercalls on grant tables and the email chain link is below
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> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-03/msg00688.html
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> This link says that we need not required hypercalls to share memory
> b/w HVM’s.
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> But as far as my understanding of sharing memory is concerned, I think
> the memory is shared using grant table mechanism and we would need
> Hypercall support related to grant tables to make this possible.
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> Correct me if I am wrong.
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> Or is there any other way of sharing memory or Inter domain
> communication?
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> Thx,
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> Venkat
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