On 22.06.2022 12:05, George Dunlap wrote: >> On 22 Jun 2022, at 09:59, Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote: >> > [snip] >> In general I also have to admit that I'm not sure the exposed data really >> qualifies as a "resource", and hence I'm not really convinced of your use >> of the resource mapping interface as a vehicle. > > I’m not sure if I’d call any of the things currently mappable via that > interface (ioreq pages, vmcall buffers, etc) “resources”. I’m not sure why > the name was chosen, except perhaps that it was meant to be a more > generalized form of “page” or “pages". > > The alternate is to try to plumb through a new ad-hoc hypercall. Andy > suggested Matias use this interface specifically to avoid having to do that; > and it sounds like he believes the interface was designed specifically for > this kind of thing.
Okay. I guess I wasn't aware of that suggestion. Jan
