From: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
pbonzini@redhat.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/16] xenhost support
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 22:50:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29e94cec-66ae-baf0-d189-f9487ce162a7@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c73a6ec5-687e-d3ef-e5d7-5700d240b4ec@suse.com>
On 2019-06-07 9:21 a.m., Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 07.06.19 17:22, Joao Martins wrote:
>> On 6/7/19 3:51 PM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> On 09.05.19 19:25, Ankur Arora wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> This is an RFC for xenhost support, outlined here by Juergen here:
>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/8/67.
>>>
>>> First: thanks for all the effort you've put into this series!
>>>
>>>> The high level idea is to provide an abstraction of the Xen
>>>> communication interface, as a xenhost_t.
>>>>
>>>> xenhost_t expose ops for communication between the guest and Xen
>>>> (hypercall, cpuid, shared_info/vcpu_info, evtchn, grant-table and on
>>>> top
>>>> of those, xenbus, ballooning), and these can differ based on the kind
>>>> of underlying Xen: regular, local, and nested.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure we need to abstract away hypercalls and cpuid. I believe in
>>> case of nested Xen all contacts to the L0 hypervisor should be done via
>>> the L1 hypervisor. So we might need to issue some kind of passthrough
>>> hypercall when e.g. granting a page to L0 dom0, but this should be
>>> handled via the grant abstraction (events should be similar).
>>>
>> Just to be clear: By "kind of passthrough hypercall" you mean (e.g.
>> for every
>> access/modify of grant table frames) you would proxy hypercall to L0
>> Xen via L1 Xen?
>
> It might be possible to spare some hypercalls by directly writing to
> grant frames mapped into L1 dom0, but in general you are right.
Wouldn't we still need map/unmap_grant_ref?
AFAICS, both the xenhost_direct and the xenhost_indirect cases should be
very similar (apart from the need to proxy in the indirect case.)
Ankur
>
>
> Juergen
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Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-09 17:25 [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/16] xenhost support Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 01/16] x86/xen: add xenhost_t interface Ankur Arora
2019-06-07 15:04 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-11 7:16 ` Ankur Arora
2019-06-14 11:52 ` Juergen Gross
2019-05-09 17:25 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 02/16] x86/xen: cpuid support in xenhost_t Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Ankur Arora
2019-06-12 21:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 03/16] x86/xen: make hypercall_page generic Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 04/16] x86/xen: hypercall support for xenhost_t Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Ankur Arora
2019-06-12 21:15 ` Andrew Cooper
2019-06-14 7:20 ` Ankur Arora
2019-06-14 7:35 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-14 8:00 ` Andrew Cooper
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 05/16] x86/xen: add feature support in xenhost_t Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 06/16] x86/xen: add shared_info support to xenhost_t Ankur Arora
2019-06-07 15:08 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-08 5:01 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 07/16] x86/xen: make vcpu_info part of xenhost_t Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Ankur Arora
2019-06-14 11:53 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-17 6:28 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 08/16] x86/xen: irq/upcall handling with multiple xenhosts Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Ankur Arora
2019-06-14 12:01 ` Juergen Gross
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 09/16] xen/evtchn: support evtchn in xenhost_t Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Ankur Arora
2019-06-14 12:04 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-17 6:09 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 10/16] xen/balloon: support ballooning " Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Ankur Arora
2019-06-17 9:28 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-19 2:24 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 11/16] xen/grant-table: make grant-table xenhost aware Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Ankur Arora
2019-06-17 9:36 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-19 2:25 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 12/16] xen/xenbus: support xenbus frontend/backend with xenhost_t Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Ankur Arora
2019-06-17 9:50 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-19 2:38 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 13/16] drivers/xen: gnttab, evtchn, xenbus API changes Ankur Arora
2019-06-17 10:07 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-19 2:55 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 14/16] xen/blk: " Ankur Arora
2019-06-17 10:14 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-19 2:59 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [RFC PATCH 15/16] xen/net: " Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] " Ankur Arora
2019-06-17 10:14 ` Juergen Gross
2019-05-09 17:25 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 16/16] xen/grant-table: host_addr fixup in mapping on xenhost_r0 Ankur Arora
2019-06-17 10:55 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-19 3:02 ` Ankur Arora
2019-05-09 17:25 ` Ankur Arora
2019-06-07 14:51 ` [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 00/16] xenhost support Juergen Gross
2019-06-07 15:22 ` Joao Martins
2019-06-07 16:21 ` Juergen Gross
2019-06-08 5:50 ` Ankur Arora [this message]
2019-06-08 5:33 ` Ankur Arora
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