From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] ATS capability support for Intel IOMMU Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:46:05 -0800 Message-ID: <20090226034605.GA6782@kroah.com> References: <1234443038-15437-1-git-send-email-yu.zhao@intel.com> <20090214225910.GA1515@colo.lackof.org> <20090226025035.GA12973@yzhao-otc.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Grant Grundler , "jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org" , "dwmw2@infradead.org" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" To: Yu Zhao Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090226025035.GA12973@yzhao-otc.sh.intel.com> Sender: linux-pci-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:50:35AM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:59:10AM +0800, Grant Grundler wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:50:32PM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote: > > > This patch series implements Address Translation Service support for > > > the Intel IOMMU. ATS makes the PCI Endpoint be able to request the > > > DMA address translation from the IOMMU and cache the translation in > > > the Endpoint, thus alleviate IOMMU pressure and improve the hardware > > > performance in the I/O virtualization environment. > > > > > > > > > Changelog: v2 -> v3 > > > 1, throw error message if VT-d hardware detects invalid descriptor > > > on Queued Invalidation interface (David Woodhouse) > > > 2, avoid using pci_find_ext_capability every time when reading ATS > > > Invalidate Queue Depth (Matthew Wilcox) > > > Changelog: v1 -> v2 > > > added 'static' prefix to a local LIST_HEAD (Andrew Morton) > > > > > > > > > Yu Zhao (6): > > > PCI: support the ATS capability > > > VT-d: parse ATSR in DMA Remapping Reporting Structure > > > VT-d: add queue invalidation fault status support > > > VT-d: add device IOTLB invalidation support > > > VT-d: cleanup iommu_flush_iotlb_psi and flush_unmaps > > > VT-d: support the device IOTLB > > > > > > drivers/pci/dmar.c | 230 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > > > > Yu, > > Can you please add something to Documentation/PCI/pci.txt? > > New API I'm seeing are: > > +extern int pci_enable_ats(struct pci_dev *dev, int ps); > > +extern void pci_disable_ats(struct pci_dev *dev); > > +extern int pci_ats_queue_depth(struct pci_dev *dev); > > Yes, I'll document these new API. > > > Do these also need to be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() as well? > > Or are drivers never expected to call the above? > > PCI device driver shouldn't use these API, only IOMMU driver (can't be module) > would use them. Anyway it's a good idea to export them :-) Don't export them if no one is using them, that's just a waste of space. thanks, greg k-h