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From: Greg Law <glaw@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: about Xen accelerated network plugin modules
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:02:06 +0000
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Zang Hongyong wrote:
> Many thanks.
> btw, what's the relationship with VT-d or IOMMU, or PCIE-IOV?

That's not defined in any way by the framework - it's up to the plugins
themselves to do what they need here, and basically that depends on the
hardware's capabilities.  The plugins we've produced do not use any of
VT-d, IOMMU or PCI-IOV, but we expect future plugins will.

Cheers,

Greg

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