From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>,
Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>,
Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC Design Doc] Add vNVDIMM support for Xen
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 18:33:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22229.57468.457255.85569@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160301073927.GA15170@hz-desktop.sh.intel.com>
Haozhong Zhang writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC Design Doc] Add vNVDIMM support for Xen"):
> On 02/18/16 21:14, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > [someone:]
> > > (2) For XENMAPSPACE_gmfn, _gmfn_range and _gmfn_foreign,
> > > (a) never map idx in them to GFNs occupied by vNVDIMM, and
> > > (b) never map idx corresponding to GFNs occupied by vNVDIMM
> >
> > Would that mean that guest xen-blkback or xen-netback wouldn't
> > be able to fetch data from the GFNs? As in, what if the HVM guest
> > that has the NVDIMM also serves as a device domain - that is it
> > has xen-blkback running to service other guests?
>
> I'm not familiar with xen-blkback and xen-netback, so following
> statements maybe wrong.
>
> In my understanding, xen-blkback/-netback in a device domain maps the
> pages from other domains into its own domain, and copies data between
> those pages and vNVDIMM. The access to vNVDIMM is performed by NVDIMM
> driver in device domain. In which steps of this procedure that
> xen-blkback/-netback needs to map into GFNs of vNVDIMM?
I think I agree with what you are saying. I don't understand exactly
what you are proposing above in XENMAPSPACE_gmfn but I don't see how
anything about this would interfere with blkback.
blkback when talking to an nvdimm will just go through the block layer
front door, and do a copy, I presume.
I don't see how netback comes into it at all.
But maybe I am just confused or ignorant! Please do explain :-).
Thanks,
Ian.
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Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-01 5:44 [RFC Design Doc] Add vNVDIMM support for Xen Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-01 18:25 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-02 3:27 ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-02 3:44 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-02 11:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-02 6:33 ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-02 7:39 ` Zhang, Haozhong
2016-02-02 7:48 ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-02 7:53 ` Zhang, Haozhong
2016-02-02 8:03 ` Tian, Kevin
2016-02-02 8:49 ` Zhang, Haozhong
2016-02-02 19:01 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-02 17:11 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-03 7:00 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 9:13 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-03 14:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-03 14:23 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-05 14:40 ` Ross Philipson
2016-02-06 1:43 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-06 16:17 ` Ross Philipson
2016-02-03 12:02 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-03 13:11 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 14:20 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-04 3:10 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 15:16 ` George Dunlap
2016-02-03 15:22 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-03 15:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-03 15:35 ` George Dunlap
2016-02-04 2:55 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-04 12:24 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-15 3:16 ` Zhang, Haozhong
2016-02-16 11:14 ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-02-16 12:55 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-17 9:03 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-04 7:30 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-16 12:55 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-16 13:13 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-16 13:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-16 13:55 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-16 14:23 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-16 14:55 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-16 15:23 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 8:58 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 11:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 12:44 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 12:59 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 13:29 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 13:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 14:00 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-17 14:21 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-29 8:47 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-29 9:11 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-29 10:10 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-29 10:49 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-08 5:02 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-08 15:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-12 8:45 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-21 5:09 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-21 7:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-22 2:36 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-22 8:24 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-22 10:16 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-22 10:53 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-22 12:26 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-22 12:36 ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-22 12:54 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-04-22 13:22 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 13:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-03 15:47 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-04 2:36 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-15 9:04 ` Zhang, Haozhong
2016-02-02 19:15 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-02-03 8:28 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 9:18 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-03 12:22 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 12:38 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-03 12:49 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-03 14:30 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-03 14:39 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-15 8:43 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-15 11:07 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-17 9:01 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-17 9:08 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-18 7:42 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-19 2:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-01 7:39 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-01 18:33 ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2016-03-01 18:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-02 7:14 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-02 13:03 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-04 2:20 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-08 9:15 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-08 9:27 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-09 12:22 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-09 16:17 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-10 3:27 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 11:05 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-17 13:37 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 13:56 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-17 14:22 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-17 14:12 ` Xu, Quan
2016-03-17 14:22 ` Zhang, Haozhong
2016-03-07 20:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-08 5:50 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-18 17:17 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-24 13:28 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-24 14:00 ` Ross Philipson
2016-02-24 16:42 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-24 17:50 ` Ross Philipson
2016-02-24 14:24 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-24 15:48 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-24 16:54 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-28 14:48 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-29 9:01 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-29 9:45 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-29 10:12 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-29 11:52 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-02-29 12:04 ` Jan Beulich
2016-02-29 12:22 ` Haozhong Zhang
2016-03-01 13:51 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-01 15:04 ` Jan Beulich
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