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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Han Weidong <weidong.han@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] Factor VT-d KVM functions into a generic API (with multiple device assignment support)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:53:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081203075302.GA13420@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081203075049.GN29705@8bytes.org>

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:50:49AM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:44:05PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:01:11PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > this patch series makes the current KVM device passthrough code generic
> > > enough so that other IOMMU implementation can also plug into this code.
> > > It works by factoring the functions Vt-d code exports to KVM into a
> > > generic interface which allows different backends.
> > > 
> > > This is the second version of the patchset. The most important change to
> > > the previous version is that this patchset was rebased to the improved
> > > API from Han Weidong which supports multiple devices per IOMMU domain.
> > > 
> > > For completeness, this series also includes the patches from Han with
> > > some cleanups. So this patchset can be applied on current avi/master
> > > tree.
> > 
> > Have you tried porting any of the current iommu controllers to this new
> > framework to see if it works properly for them?
> 
> It works currently for VT-d. I also port it to AMD IOMMU currently. With
> some extensions (offset for start address, flags and size limitation) it
> is also suitable for IOMMUs like GART or similar ones.

What about the Calgary chipset?

thanks,

gerg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-03  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-02 13:01 [PATCH 0/12] Factor VT-d KVM functions into a generic API (with multiple device assignment support) Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 01/12] VT-d: Support multiple device assignment for KVM Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 02/12] KVM: change to use new APIs for kvm vtd Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 03/12] KVM: rename vtd.c to iommu.c Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 04/12] introcude linux/iommu.h for an iommu api Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 05/12] add frontend implementation for the IOMMU API Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 06/12] select IOMMU_API when DMAR and/or AMD_IOMMU is selected Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 07/12] KVM: change KVM iommu.c to use IOMMU API Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 08/12] VT-d: adapt domain init and destroy functions for " Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 09/12] VT-d: adapt device attach and detach " Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 10/12] VT-d: adapt domain map and unmap " Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 11/12] VT-d: adapt domain iova_to_phys function " Joerg Roedel
2008-12-02 13:01 ` [PATCH 12/12] VT-d: register functions for the " Joerg Roedel
2008-12-03  3:44 ` [PATCH 0/12] Factor VT-d KVM functions into a generic API (with multiple device assignment support) Greg KH
2008-12-03  7:50   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-12-03  7:53     ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-12-03  9:03       ` Joerg Roedel
2008-12-04 10:47         ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-12-03 10:17 ` Han, Weidong

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