From: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:29:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CCB8BA.6060007@superbug.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070822222036.GD3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Chris Wright wrote:
> * James Courtier-Dutton (James@superbug.co.uk) wrote:
>> If one could directly expose a device to the guest, this feature could
>> be extremely useful for me.
>> Is it possible? How would it manage to handle the DMA bus mastering?
>
> Yes it's possible (Xen supports pci pass through). Without an IOMMU
> (like Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU) it's not DMA safe.
>
> thanks,
> -chris
Ok, so I need to get a new CPU like the Intel Core Duo that has VT
features? I have an old Pentium 4 at the moment, without any VT features.
Kind Regards
James
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:29:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CCB8BA.6060007@superbug.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070822222036.GD3672@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Chris Wright wrote:
> * James Courtier-Dutton (James@superbug.co.uk) wrote:
>> If one could directly expose a device to the guest, this feature could
>> be extremely useful for me.
>> Is it possible? How would it manage to handle the DMA bus mastering?
>
> Yes it's possible (Xen supports pci pass through). Without an IOMMU
> (like Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU) it's not DMA safe.
>
> thanks,
> -chris
Ok, so I need to get a new CPU like the Intel Core Duo that has VT
features? I have an old Pentium 4 at the moment, without any VT features.
Kind Regards
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-22 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-22 5:23 [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 5:23 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 5:34 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 5:40 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 8:37 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 16:16 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 6:25 ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-22 10:35 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 9:51 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 11:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 10:23 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 11:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 12:09 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 13:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 12:32 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 16:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-08-27 17:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-28 6:51 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-28 11:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-22 6:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-22 6:03 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-24 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
2007-08-22 10:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 16:48 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 17:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 17:07 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 19:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 20:43 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 22:04 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-22 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-22 21:41 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-23 5:34 ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-22 21:45 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 17:34 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-22 17:34 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-22 21:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-22 22:15 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2007-08-22 22:15 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2007-08-22 22:20 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-22 22:29 ` James Courtier-Dutton [this message]
2007-08-22 22:29 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2007-08-22 22:34 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-22 23:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-23 0:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-23 0:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-23 2:34 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-27 17:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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