From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: PV DMA for PCI passthrough devices for KVM Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:15:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87skx4hker.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <1209465451-3758-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 To: Amit Shah Return-path: 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") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Amit Shah 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