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Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/xen



On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:47:40 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
This is slightly more complicated than it appears. Some of the "ops" in a per-cpu queue may have ordering dependencies with other cpu queues, and I think this would be hard to express trivially. (an example would be a pte update on one queue, and reading the same pte read on another queue - these cases are quite analogous (although completely unrelated)

read don't go through the xpq queue, don't they ?

Nope, PTE are directly obtained from the recursive mappings (vtopte/kvtopte).

Content is "obviously" only writable by hypervisor (so it can keep control of his mapping alone).

I think this is similar to a tlb flush but the other way round,
I guess we could use a IPI for this too.

IIRC that's what the current native x86 code does: it uses an IPI to signal other processors that a shootdown is necessary.

I'm thinking that it might be easier and more justifiable to nuke the current queue scheme and implement shadow page tables, which would fit
more naturally and efficiently with CAS pte updates, etc.

I'm not sure this would completely fis the issue: with shadow page tables you can't use a CAS to assure atomic operation with the hardware TLB, as
this is, precisely, a shadow PT and not the one used by hardware.

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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