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From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: "Han, Weidong" <weidong.han@intel.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
	"Kay, Allen M" <allen.m.kay@intel.com>,
	"Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@intel.com>,
	benami@il.ibm.com, muli@il.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] VT-d: Support multiple device assignment to one guest
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:25:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081029102528.GD6345@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EB6431.4070300@redhat.com>

(sorry for joining this late, I returned from a 3-week vacation this
 monday)

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:29:21PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Oh, I see it now.  Different devices may need to go under different iommus.
> 
> This really feels like it should be handled by the iommu API.  Users
> shouldn't need to bother with it.
> 
> Joerg, can your dma api handle this?

Yes. The API works in terms of devices and domains. The fact that a
domain may contain devices behind different IOMMUs is hidden to the user
of that API.

Joerg

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-06  6:38 [PATCH] [RESEND] VT-d: Support multiple device assignment to one guest Han, Weidong
2008-10-07 10:04 ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-10-07 13:59   ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-08  1:58     ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-10-07 13:29 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-08  5:40   ` Han, Weidong
2008-10-08 10:32     ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-08 15:06       ` Han, Weidong
2008-10-08 19:49         ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-09  6:11           ` Han, Weidong
2008-10-09  8:31             ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-09  9:25               ` Han, Weidong
2008-10-09 12:50                 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-09 14:31                   ` Han, Weidong
     [not found]                   ` <0122C7C995D32147B66BF4F440D3016301CB08EF@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com>
2008-10-10  5:50                     ` Han, Weidong
2008-10-10  6:40                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-10  7:22                         ` Han, Weidong
2008-10-10  7:32                           ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-10  7:50                             ` Han, Weidong
2008-10-29 10:25   ` Joerg Roedel [this message]

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