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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, chrisw@redhat.com,
	allen.m.kay@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	gcosta@redhat.com, avi@qumranet.com,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, BENAMI@il.ibm.com
Subject: Re: PV DMA for PCI passthrough devices for KVM
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:15:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skx4hker.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209465451-3758-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@qumranet.com> (Amit Shah's message of "Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:37:28 +0300")

Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com> writes:

> This patchset implements PVDMA for handling DMA requests from
> devices assigned to the guest from the host machine.

You forgot to post a high level design overview of how this works,
what it is good for, what are the design trade offs etc.? 

Include that in the first patch.

-Andi

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-29 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-29 10:37 PV DMA for PCI passthrough devices for KVM Amit Shah
2008-04-29 10:37 ` [PATCH] x86 DMA: Handle devices assigned to the guest by the host Amit Shah
2008-04-29 10:37   ` [PATCH] KVM x86: Handle hypercalls for assigned PCI devices Amit Shah
2008-04-29 10:37     ` [PATCH] KVM PV Guest: Implement paravirtualized DMA Amit Shah
2008-04-29 13:31       ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-29 13:59         ` Amit Shah
2008-04-29 14:44     ` [PATCH] KVM x86: Handle hypercalls for assigned PCI devices Glauber Costa
2008-04-29 15:58       ` Amit Shah
2008-04-29 22:48         ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-30  6:05           ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-05-01 13:18         ` Amit Shah
2008-04-29 13:14   ` [PATCH] x86 DMA: Handle devices assigned to the guest by the host Andi Kleen
2008-04-29 13:49     ` Amit Shah
2008-04-30  6:29   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-04-29 13:15 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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