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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: tgingold@free.fr
Cc: "Zhang, Yang" <yang.zhang@intel.com>,
	"kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Qemu: Flush i-cache after ide-dma operation in IA64
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:59:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D4E0E4.90606@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D4DF6A.7080108@redhat.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>  
>>
>> It doesn't had to do it.  The PCI transaction will automatically 
>> invalidate
>> caches - but qemu doesn't emulate this (and doesn't need to do on x86).
>>   
>
> So any DMA on ia64 will flush the instruction caches?!
>

Or maybe, the host kernel will do it after the transaction completes?  
In our case the lack of zero-copy means the host is invalidating the 
wrong addresses (memcpy source) and leaving the real destination intact.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-02 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-02  2:01 [PATCH] KVM: Qemu: Flush i-cache after ide-dma operation in IA64 Zhang, Yang
2009-04-02  8:55 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-02 15:41   ` tgingold
2009-04-02 15:53     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-02 15:59       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-04-03  1:22         ` Zhang, Xiantao
2009-04-03  1:13       ` Zhang, Xiantao
2009-04-03  1:31   ` Zhang, Xiantao
2009-04-03 11:06     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-06 16:31 ` Hollis Blanchard

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