From bf2bbe07f13846a90d4447521d87566d6f87bc0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Vrabel Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:55:41 +0000 Subject: xen/events: Add the hypervisor interface for the FIFO-based event channels Add the hypercall sub-ops and the structures for the shared data used in the FIFO-based event channel ABI. The design document for this new ABI is available here: http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dvrabel/event-channels-H.pdf In summary, events are reported using a per-domain shared event array of event words. Each event word has PENDING, LINKED and MASKED bits and a LINK field for pointing to the next event in the event queue. There are 16 event queues (with different priorities) per-VCPU. Key advantages of this new ABI include: - Support for over 100,000 events (2^17). - 16 different event priorities. - Improved fairness in event latency through the use of FIFOs. The ABI is available in Xen 4.4 and later. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky --- include/xen/interface/xen.h | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/xen/interface/xen.h') diff --git a/include/xen/interface/xen.h b/include/xen/interface/xen.h index 53ec4167bd0b..0cd5ca333fac 100644 --- a/include/xen/interface/xen.h +++ b/include/xen/interface/xen.h @@ -281,12 +281,6 @@ struct multicall_entry { }; DEFINE_GUEST_HANDLE_STRUCT(multicall_entry); -/* - * Event channel endpoints per domain: - * 1024 if a long is 32 bits; 4096 if a long is 64 bits. - */ -#define NR_EVENT_CHANNELS (sizeof(xen_ulong_t) * sizeof(xen_ulong_t) * 64) - struct vcpu_time_info { /* * Updates to the following values are preceded and followed -- cgit v1.2.3