From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60421) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgig1-00039y-R2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 21:26:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgifv-0003E2-Oc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 21:26:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58010) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bgifv-0003Dy-IL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2016 21:26:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 04:26:13 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20160905042537-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <1472526419-5900-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> <1472526419-5900-2-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> <57CCC955.2020800@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57CCC955.2020800@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 2.8 01/11] linux-headers: update to 4.8-rc4 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Wei Xu Cc: Jason Wang , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, peterx@redhat.com, vkaplans@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 09:24:37AM +0800, Wei Xu wrote: > Looks this patch includes quite a few misc changes from upstream, it's a bit > confused to find out which one is related to virtio/vhost dmar support, > while the upstream header shows a separate commit for new IOTLB api, is it > possible to split this patch to dmar related one and a > common pull from upstream? > > upstream log: > git log -p include/uapi/linux/vhost.h > commit 6b1e6cc7855b09a0a9bfa1d9f30172ba366f161c > Author: Jason Wang > Date: Thu Jun 23 02:04:32 2016 -0400 > > vhost: new device IOTLB API > > This patch tries to implement an device IOTLB for vhost. This could > be used with userspace(qemu) implementation of DMA remapping to > emulate an IOMMU for the guest. You don't need to sync all headers. Just commit the ones that make sense. -- MST