Difference in event channel implementation for Xen PV vs HVM guests

Roger Pau Monné roger.pau at citrix.com
Thu Mar 21 12:43:41 UTC 2013


On 18/03/13 14:08, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
 > Hi Roger,
> 
> I know of no reasons why XENHVM cannot use the full event channel
> interface.  In fact, Spectra Logic implemented PV timers and a
> general cleanup of the HVM event channel interface.  I haven't merged
> it back yet because I know the changes break PV and I haven't found
> time to clean up the PV code, merge the HVM and PV event channel
> systems, and move IPI/MSI delivery to event channels.
> 
> I've uploaded Spectra's changes here:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/xen_ev/

Hi Justin,

There's at least one file which seems to be missing:

sys/x86/xen/hvm.c

Could you check if you have that file around?

Thanks, Roger.


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