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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: "Han, Weidong" <weidong.han@intel.com>
Cc: Ben-Ami Yassour <benami@il.ibm.com>,
	amit.shah@qumranet.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, muli@il.ibm.com,
	anthony@codemonkey.ws
Subject: Re: device assignemnt: updated patches
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:32:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488AEF35.10909@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0122C7C995D32147B66BF4F440D30163016E822A@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com>

Han, Weidong wrote:
>> How are we standing with merging the changes to the VT-d driver, which
>> are a prerequisite?
>>     
>
> You mean push the changes into VT-d driver first. But the VT-d driver
> modification patch maybe need some changes during following development.
> How about making it stable in KVM first, then push it into VT-d driver?
>   

Yeah, we do have a chicken-and-egg situation here. I guess I can carry 
that patch while we're working this out.

Longer term, we will have to move to a vendor neutral API so as to 
support amd iommu and non-x86 iommus.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-26  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-22 12:13 device assignemnt: updated patches Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-22 12:13 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: Add irq ack notifier list Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-22 12:13   ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: pci device assignment Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-22 12:13     ` [PATCH 3/4] VT-d: changes to support KVM Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-22 12:13       ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: Device assignemnt with VT-d Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-22 12:18         ` device assignment - userspace part Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-22 12:18           ` [PATCH 1/1] KVM/userspace: Support for assigning PCI devices to guest Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-26  9:02         ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: Device assignemnt with VT-d Avi Kivity
2008-07-28  6:49         ` Han, Weidong
2008-07-28 16:34           ` Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-26  8:46     ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: pci device assignment Avi Kivity
2008-07-28  7:27     ` Yang, Sheng
2008-07-28 16:41       ` Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-28  8:33     ` Amit Shah
2008-07-26  8:19   ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: Add irq ack notifier list Avi Kivity
2008-07-26  9:05 ` device assignemnt: updated patches Avi Kivity
2008-07-26  9:24   ` Han, Weidong
2008-07-26  9:32     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-07-26  9:48       ` Han, Weidong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-28 16:26 Device " Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-30 15:21 ` Avi Kivity

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