Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Control panel changes for IA64/VTI

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 Oct 2005, at 04:53, Tian, Kevin wrote:

> BTW, the reason for an ia64 specific get_pfn_list (by Matt) is that 
> machine pages for domain on ia64 are allocated on demand. So there's 
> requirement for parameters to contain start_pfn and nr_pages so that 
> Xen can allocate necessary pages for that specific range. On x86 side, 
> since all the pages are allocated when domain creation, get_pfn_list 
> is aimed to query once for all pages and so the parameter can be only 
> nr_pages. Just the background here. ;-)
We could have a common interface then. All the uses of get_pfn_list in 
common or x86 code will have start_pfn==0.
The patches look okay, although the Python bits aren't particularly 
pretty.
 -- Keir


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