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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: benami@il.ibm.com, amit.shah@qumranet.com, weidong.han@intel.com,
	muli@il.ibm.com, raharper@us.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: PCIPT: VT-d: fix guest unmap
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:28:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <485C04DB.6040207@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <485BFE24.5080100@qumranet.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> I think the current VT-d code needs some reworking.
>>
>> We should build the table as the shadow page table gets built.  We 
>> should suppress iotlb flushes unless the table is actually being 
>> updated.
>>
>
> We can't, since we need the iommu tables populated before we issue any 
> dma.

Yes, as I've mentioned, the lack of a DMA window notification API can be 
handled as a special case.

> Perhaps we want something like MAP_POPULATE for shadow, which would 
> then affect the iommu tables.  Userspace would then do:
>
> mlock()
> ... set up device assignment
> ioctl(..., KVM_POPULATE)

Exactly like this :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori



      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-20 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-17 19:05 Patches for vtd pci passthrough benami
2008-06-17 19:05 ` [PATCH] KVM: PCIPT: fix compilation errors benami
2008-06-17 19:05   ` [PATCH] KVM: PCIPT: VT-d: fix guest unmap benami
2008-06-17 19:05     ` [PATCH] KVM: PCIPT: free device structure on vm destroy benami
2008-06-17 19:05       ` [PATCH] KVM: PCIPT: VT-d: fix context mapping benami
2008-06-17 19:25         ` KVM: PCIPT: temporary fix for pio (userspace part) benami
2008-06-17 19:25           ` [PATCH] " benami
2008-06-18 20:30         ` [PATCH] KVM: PCIPT: VT-d: fix context mapping Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-06-19  8:59         ` Han, Weidong
2008-06-19 12:28           ` Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-06-19 14:18             ` Han, Weidong
2008-06-19 17:44               ` Ben-Ami Yassour1
2008-06-20  6:23                 ` Han, Weidong
2008-06-30 15:32                   ` Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-01  2:22                     ` Han, Weidong
2008-06-17 21:29     ` [PATCH] KVM: PCIPT: VT-d: fix guest unmap Anthony Liguori
2008-06-18 12:06       ` Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-06-18 20:48         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-18 21:23           ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-06-18 21:41             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-20 18:59       ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-20 19:28         ` Anthony Liguori [this message]

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