Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1

[Avi Kivity]

Robin Holt wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:51:23PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   
> > Jumping in here, looks like this could develop into a direction useful
> > for Xen.
> >
> > Background:  Xen has a mechanism called "grant tables" for page sharing.
> >  Guest #1 can issue a "grant" for another guest #2, which in turn then
> > can use that grant to map the page owned by guest #1 into its address
> > space.  This is used by the virtual network/disk drivers, i.e. typically
> > Domain-0 (which has access to the real hardware) maps pages of other
> > guests to fill in disk/network data.
> >     
>
> This is extremely similar to what XPMEM is providing.
>
>   

I think that in Xen's case the page tables are the normal cpu page 
tables, not an external mmu (like RDMA, kvm, and XPMEM).

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