From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda Subject: Re: VT-d support for device assignment Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:57:47 +0300 Message-ID: <20080823095747.GC6942@il.ibm.com> References: <1219389054-15332-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: avi@qumranet.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, anthony@codemonkey.ws, jesse.barnes@intel.com, david.woodhouse@intel.com, mark.gross@intel.com, Ben-Ami Yassour1 , weidong.han@intel.com To: Amit Shah Return-path: Received: from mtagate6.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.139]:46337 "EHLO mtagate6.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752345AbYHWJ6w (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:58:52 -0400 Received: from d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.38.185]) by mtagate6.uk.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7N9vrrI076424 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:57:53 GMT Received: from d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.228]) by d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.0) with ESMTP id m7N9vrYP3199206 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:57:53 +0100 Received: from d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m7N9vqFP009930 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:57:53 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1219389054-15332-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@qumranet.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:10:52AM +0300, Amit Shah wrote: > The second patch contains the changes to KVM. > > I've updated the 2nd patch to use VT-d only when requested by a > parameter on the command line, making it easier to support iommu > with pvdma and multiple iommu types. > > The command line currently should be invoked as: > > -pcidevice dev=00:13.0,vtd=on Could you please send your changes as a seperate, follow-on patch? The original patch is complicated enough, and that way the authorship information does not get muddled further, and it's much easier to see what you changed. Cheers, Muli -- Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08) Co-located with OSDI '08, Dec 2008, San Diego, CA http://www.usenix.org/wiov08