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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prev 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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