Xen devel - Oct 2006 - [LINUX]*back_init: should return -ENODEV if not privileged?

Is there any reason to actually setup/init net/block back if the  
domain is not privileged?

-JX

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On 12/10/06 10:51, "Jimi Xenidis" <jimix@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
> Is there any reason to actually setup/init net/block back if the
> domain is not privileged?
The concept of ''privileged'' is not really well defined.
Certainly you could
imagine having backends which have no access to physical hardware. A virtual
network bridge for example.

 -- Keir



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> Is there any reason to actually setup/init net/block back if the
> domain is not privileged?
In the old days we didn''t bother doing this, but since the introduction
of
grant tables it is possible, in principle, for an unpriv domain to be a 
backend.

I guess there are no terribly solid reasons why you''d want to do that,
but it
could be useful for e.g. disaggregating functionality into multiple domains 
(some sort of software RAID domain, for instance), or Keir''s virtual
network
bridge example (you could construct a virtual DMZ quite straightforwardly)

Actually, even if the domain has PCI access, I didn''t think it was 
strictly "privileged" anymore?  If that''s the case, then we
also need
net/block back to run in the case of driver domains.

Cheers,
Mark

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