Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] virtio: Clean up scatterlists and use the DMA API

Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-28T16:36:41Z

On 28/07/2015 15:11, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> This doesn't matter much, since the only guests that implement an IOMMU
>>> >> in QEMU are (afaik) PPC and x86, and x86 does not yet promise any kind
>>> >> of stability.
>> >
>> > Hmm I think Jan (cc) said it was already used out there.
> Yes, no known issues with vt-d emulation for almost a year now. Error
> reporting could be improved, and interrupt remapping is still missing,
> but those are minor issues in this context.

On the other hand interrupt remapping is absolutely necessary for
production use, hence my point that x86 does not promise API stability.

("Any kind of stability" actually didn't include crashes; those are not
expected :))

The Google patches for userspace PIC and IOAPIC are proceeding well, so
hopefully we can have interrupt remapping soon.

Paolo