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The following patches introduce and implement grant table version 2.
They are improved from my previous patches and based on v3.2.0-rc1+.
Descriptions for those patches:
1. In those patches, the grant table code supports both grant table v1
and v2 version, v2 is an extension from v1. Grant table of guest domain
can be either v1 or v2 version, and every grant table entry on one
guest should be the same version.
2. Full page structure of grant table v2 play the same role as grant
table v1. Although full page structure is different from v1, grant
table 2 is totally backwards compatible with v1. Grant table is shared
between guest and Xen, domu and dom0 all have their own grant table
shared with Xen, and their grant table version should be set before any
grants are activated. When domu grants an entry to dom0 to map a frame,
following are steps:
* domu introduces a grant entry by reference
* domu informs dom0 the gref
* dom0 sends hypercall to map frame through this reference, Xen copy
shared entry to active entry and update frame
* dom0 does its work and release the frame, Xen releases the entry.
* domu redo those steps for a new cycle.
Xen mapping process can be found in function __gnttab_map_grant_ref in
Xen code: xen/common/grant_table.c
3. If dom0 supports grant table v2, guests run on it can either
supports v1 or v2. Xen is responsible to judge what version the guests
are using. This is implemented in Xen code: xen/common/grant_table.c.
Key word is: rd->grant_table->gt_version.
4. Grant table v2 has been supported by Xen for a long time, and receiver-side copying mechanism bases on this implementation. Netback and netfront driver can pick up this new feature to get better network performance and better CPU accounting.
Thanks
Annie
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