From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>, hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, Ian.Campbell@citrix.com,
albert_herranz@yahoo.es, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] x86: Detect whether we should use Xen SWIOTLB.
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:42:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100802164234.GC6961@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100803010025R.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:01:08AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:47:53 -0700
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> > On 08/02/2010 08:43 AM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > >
> > > That's the difficult part because IOMMUs are not
> > > interdependent. Hardware IOMMUs are related with swiotlb. GART and
> > > AMD-IOMMU are too.
> > >
> > > We could invent sorta IOMMU register interface and driver-ize IOMMUs
> > > but they can't be interdependent completely.
> >
> > Of course. However, we need there to be as much structure to it as
> > there can be.
>
> Ok, let's see if Konrad can invent something clean.
<chuckles> Thank you for your vote of confidence.
>
> But his attempt to create "swiotlb iommu function array" and "hardware
> iommu function array" looks like to makes the code more unreadable.
Let me go to my favorite coffee shop and think this one through.
Can I get concession for putting the original patch in (the simple, dumb one),
and then:
- start working on the IOMMU register interface without having to try
to get it done for 2.6.36, and
- do the driverization as a seperate cleanup.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-02 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-27 16:59 [PATCH] Xen-SWIOTLB v0.8.6 used for Xen PCI pass through for PV guests Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-27 16:59 ` [PATCH 1/9] xen: use _PAGE_IOMAP in ioremap to do machine mappings Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-27 16:59 ` [PATCH 2/9] xen: Allow unprivileged Xen domains to create iomap pages Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-27 16:59 ` [PATCH 3/9] xen: Rename the balloon lock Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-27 16:59 ` [PATCH 4/9] xen: Add xen_create_contiguous_region Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-27 16:59 ` [PATCH 5/9] vmap: add flag to allow lazy unmap to be disabled at runtime Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-27 16:59 ` [PATCH 6/9] xen/mmu: inhibit vmap aliases rather than trying to clear them out Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-27 17:00 ` [PATCH 7/9] swiotlb-xen: SWIOTLB library for Xen PV guest with PCI passthrough Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-27 17:00 ` [PATCH 8/9] pci-swiotlb-xen: Add glue code to setup dma_ops utilizing xen_swiotlb_* functions Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-27 17:00 ` [PATCH 9/9] x86: Detect whether we should use Xen SWIOTLB Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-27 19:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-27 19:41 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-27 23:36 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-28 0:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-28 0:52 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-28 22:38 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-28 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-29 7:17 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-07-29 13:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-07-29 16:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-08-02 15:25 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-08-02 15:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-02 15:43 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-08-02 15:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-02 16:01 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-08-02 16:42 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2010-08-02 16:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-03 5:35 ` FUJITA Tomonori
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