From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: [V6 PATCH 6.2/7] pvh dom0: Add and remove foreign pages Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 07:47:18 +0000 Message-ID: <52AEBE16020000780010D6E1@nat28.tlf.novell.com> References: <1386297524-15483-1-git-send-email-mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> <1386297524-15483-7-git-send-email-mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> <20131210162753.2e402081@mantra.us.oracle.com> <20131210164442.3879f6c0@mantra.us.oracle.com> <52A7C14C.2020504@linaro.org> <20131210174755.05e5550f@mantra.us.oracle.com> <20131211142903.GB6450@deinos.phlegethon.org> <20131211184606.4f0d9366@mantra.us.oracle.com> <20131212184449.77cc02db@mantra.us.oracle.com> <20131213112548.GA57692@deinos.phlegethon.org> <52AB000F020000780010CF63@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <52AB59B0.9090103@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <52AB59B0.9090103@eu.citrix.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: George Dunlap , Mukesh Rathor , Tim Deegan Cc: Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Campbell , Julien Grall , eddie.dong@intel.com, keir.xen@gmail.com, jun.nakajima@intel.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>> On 13.12.13 at 20:02, George Dunlap wrote: > On 12/13/2013 11:39 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>>> On 13.12.13 at 12:25, Tim Deegan wrote: >>> Also, Jan may have an opinion about whether a teardown operation that >>> has to walk each p2m entry would have to be made preemptible. I'm not >>> sure where we draw the line on such things. >> There's no line here - "each" is too much in any case. > > By which you mean, yes a teardown operation that has to walk each p2m > entry does need to be made pre-emptible? > > It that's not what you mean, I'm at a loss for an interpretation of the > above sentence. :-) Any operation - teardown or other - that needs to walk all of a domain's pages has to be preemptible. So yes, your interpretation of my earlier response was right. Jan