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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] fix xen_in_range()
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"Cihula, Joseph" <joseph.cihula@xxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] fix xen_in_range() |
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Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:25:26 +0100 |
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"Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx>, "Wang, Shane" <shane.wang@xxxxxxxxx>, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>, "Yang, Xiaowei" <xiaowei.yang@xxxxxxxxx>, "Ke, Liping" <liping.ke@xxxxxxxxx>, "Li, Xin" <xin.li@xxxxxxxxx> |
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On 23/04/2009 00:53, "Cihula, Joseph" <joseph.cihula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Unfortunately, the frametable is only contiguous in the virtual address space,
> so one can't simply take __pa() of its start and end. And since it is quite
> large, iterating through each page to gets its phys addr adds a perceptible
> delay when that check has to be done for each page of physical memory (as is
> the case in the only caller, the VT-d routine that maps memory for dom0). But
> it also appears that we can't convert the phys addr arguments into their virt
> addrs to compare with the contiguous frametable range because they will
> convert to the DIRECTMAP va's instead.
The frametable is allocated in aligned 2MB chunks. So you can check at that
granularity rather than 4kB.
-- Keir
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