From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: "Kay, Allen M" <allen.m.kay@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Ben-Ami Yassour1 <benami@il.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [VTD][patch 2/3] vt-d support for pci passthrough: kvm-vtd-user.patch
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 13:36:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <482034C0.90808@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1FE6DD409037234FAB833C420AA843EC01438CB5@orsmsx424.amr.corp.intel.com>
Kay, Allen M wrote:
> Still todo: move vt.d to kvm-intel.ko module.
>
Not sure it's the right thing to do. If we get the iommus abstracted
properly, we can rename vtd.c to dma.c and move it to virt/kvm/.
The code is certainly a lot more about managing memory than anything vmx
specific. It's hardly x86 specific, even.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-06 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-05 21:37 [RFC] [VTD][patch 2/3] vt-d support for pci passthrough: kvm-vtd-user.patch Kay, Allen M
2008-05-06 10:36 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-05-07 0:39 ` Anthony Liguori
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