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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Han, Weidong" <weidong.han@intel.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.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, "Woodhouse,
	David" <david.woodhouse@intel.com>,
	"Barnes, Jesse" <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] VT-d: Support multiple device assignment to one guest
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:40:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EEF8CC.5000309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0122C7C995D32147B66BF4F440D3016301D55E1A@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com>

Han, Weidong wrote:
> It's hard to move kvm_vtd_domain inside current iommu API. It's kvm
> specific. It's not elegant to include kvm_vtd_domain stuffs in native
> VT-d code.

It's cleaner than adding knowledge of how the iommu works to kvm.

>  I think leave it in kvm side is more clean at this point.
> Moveover it's very simple. I read Joerg's iommu API foils just now, I
> think it's good. Native AMD iommu code will be in 2.6.28, it's a
> suitable to implement a generic iommu API based both on Intel and AMD
> iommu for kvm after 2.6.28. What's your opinion? 
>   

2.6.27 is out, so anything we do will be for 2.6.29.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-10  6:41 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 [this message]
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

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