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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org,
	Nadav Amit <namit-pghWNbHTmq7QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu/vt-d: Remove unnecassary qi clflushes
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 18:40:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac3ff8d4-e47b-e4d8-40ed-02811732526a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <926A8CFB-D22D-4DC6-9EE0-D912451365BB-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>



On 05/07/2016 18:27, Nadav Amit wrote:
>> Although such hardware is old, there are some hypervisors that do not set
>> the ecap.coherency of emulated IOMMUs. Yes, it is unwise, but there is no
>> reason to further punish these hypervisors.

QEMU will need the kernel to respect ecap.coherency in order to support
nested VFIO, for example.

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-05 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-24 13:13 [PATCH] iommu/vt-d: Remove unnecassary qi clflushes Nadav Amit
     [not found] ` <1466773994-242872-1-git-send-email-namit-pghWNbHTmq7QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-27 11:30   ` Joerg Roedel
     [not found]     ` <20160627113014.GL11432-zLv9SwRftAIdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-27 16:17       ` Nadav Amit
     [not found]         ` <C78095BC-3BED-48DE-90CE-601DE40AA613-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-05 16:27           ` Nadav Amit
     [not found]             ` <926A8CFB-D22D-4DC6-9EE0-D912451365BB-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-05 16:40               ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <ac3ff8d4-e47b-e4d8-40ed-02811732526a-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-05 16:50                   ` Nadav Amit
     [not found]                     ` <5F48A3E6-99EE-4DC5-BF38-4F0338E9E8D0-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-05 16:57                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-07-13 10:07   ` Joerg Roedel

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