Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add HAP to xen hypervisor capabilities

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On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 04:32:41PM -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> xen-unstable c/s 16931 introduced a per-domain setting for hvm
> guests to enable/disable hardware assisted paging.  If disabled,
> software techniques such as shadow page tables are used.  If enabled,
> and the feature exists in underlying hardware, hardware support for
> paging is used.
> 
> Xen does not provide a mechanism to discover the HAP capability, so
> we advertise its availability for hvm guests on Xen >= 3.3.
> ---
>  src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c b/src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c
> index ead8ee9..229ef3d 100644
> --- a/src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c
> +++ b/src/xen/xen_hypervisor.c
> @@ -2321,6 +2321,16 @@ xenHypervisorBuildCapabilities(virConnectPtr conn,
>                                                  hv_minor > 0 ?
>                                                  0 : 1)) == NULL)
>                  goto no_memory;
> +
> +            /* Xen 3.3.x and beyond supports enabling/disabling
> +             * hardware assisted paging.  Default is off.
> +             */
> +            if ((hv_major == 3 && hv_minor >= 3) || (hv_major > 3))
> +                if (virCapabilitiesAddGuestFeature(guest,
> +                                                   "hap",
> +                                                   0,
> +                                                   1) == NULL)
> +                    goto no_memory;
>          }
>      }

ACK

Daniel

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