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* RFC: Paravirtualized DMA accesses for KVM
@ 2007-11-07 14:21 ` Amit Shah
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 42+ messages in thread
From: Amit Shah @ 2007-11-07 14:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm-devel, linux-kernel


This patchset is work in progress and is sent out for comments.

Guests within KVM can have paravirtualized DMA access. I've tested
the e1000 driver, and that works fine. A few problems/conditions to
get things to work:

- The pv driver should only be used as a module. If built into the
  kernel, It freezes during the HD bringup
- Locks aren't taken on the host; multiple guests with passthrough
  won't work
- Only 64 bit host and 64 bit guests are supported

And there are several FIXMEs mentioned in the code, but none
as grave as the ones already mentioned above.

The bulk of the passthrough work is done in userspace (qemu). Patches
will be sent shortly to the kvm-devel and qemu lists.

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2007-11-07 14:21 RFC: Paravirtualized DMA accesses for KVM Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21 ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21 ` [PATCH 1/8] KVM: PVDMA Host: Handle reqeusts for guest DMA mappings Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21   ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21     ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21   ` [PATCH 2/8] KVM: Move #include asm/kvm_para.h outside of __KERNEL__ Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21     ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21       ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21   ` [PATCH 3/8] KVM: PVDMA Guest: Guest-side routines for paravirtualized DMA Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21     ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21       ` Amit Shah
2007-11-12 10:50     ` [kvm-devel] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-11-12 10:50       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-11-12 11:56       ` [kvm-devel] " Amit Shah
2007-11-12 11:56         ` Amit Shah
2007-11-12 13:32         ` [kvm-devel] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-11-12 13:32           ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-11-12 13:55           ` [kvm-devel] " Amit Shah
2007-11-12 13:55             ` Amit Shah
2007-11-12 14:01             ` [kvm-devel] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-11-12 14:01               ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-11-12 14:53       ` [kvm-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2007-11-12 14:53         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2007-11-12 16:00       ` [kvm-devel] " Joerg Roedel
2007-11-12 16:00         ` Joerg Roedel
2007-11-07 14:21   ` [PATCH 4/8] KVM: PVDMA: Introduce is_pv_device() dma operation Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21     ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21       ` Amit Shah
2007-11-12 10:52     ` [kvm-devel] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-11-12 10:52       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-11-07 14:21   ` [PATCH 5/8] KVM: PVDMA: Update dma_alloc_coherent to make it paravirt-aware Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21     ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21       ` Amit Shah
2007-11-12 10:56     ` [kvm-devel] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-11-12 10:56       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-11-12 11:59       ` [kvm-devel] " Amit Shah
2007-11-12 11:59         ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21   ` [PATCH 6/8] KVM: PVDMA Guest: Add Makefile rule Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21     ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21       ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21   ` [PATCH 7/8] PVDMA: Guest: Add Kconfig options to select PVDMA Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21     ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21       ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21   ` [PATCH 8/8] KVM: Update drivers/Makefile to check for CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21     ` Amit Shah
2007-11-07 14:21       ` Amit Shah
2007-11-12 15:55   ` [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/8] KVM: PVDMA Host: Handle reqeusts for guest DMA mappings Joerg Roedel
2007-11-12 15:55     ` Joerg Roedel
2007-11-12 17:07     ` [kvm-devel] " Amit Shah
2007-11-12 17:07       ` Amit Shah

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