Difference in event channel implementation for Xen PV vs HVM guests

Roger Pau Monné roger.pau at citrix.com
Thu Mar 21 12:50:36 UTC 2013


On 21/03/13 13:43, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> 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:

Ops, there at least two files missing:

sys/x86/xen/hvm.c
sys/xen/evtchn/evtchnvar.h


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