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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	chrisw@sous-sol.org, ddutile@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Manage iommu_coherency globally
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:28:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111116102829.GA3477@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111116040752.11878.18642.stgit@bling.home>

* Alex Williamson (alex.williamson@redhat.com) wrote:
> We currently manage iommu_coherency on a per domain basis,
> choosing the safest setting across the iommus attached to a
> particular domain.  This unfortunately has a bug that when
> no iommus are attached, the domain defaults to coherent.
> If we fall into this mode, then later add a device behind a
> non-coherent iommu to that domain, the context entry is
> updated using the wrong coherency setting, and we get dmar
> faults.
> 
> Since we expect chipsets to be consistent in their coherency
> setting, we can instead determine the coherency once and use
> it globally.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-16 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-16  4:11 [PATCH] intel-iommu: Manage iommu_coherency globally Alex Williamson
2011-11-16 10:28 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2011-11-18 12:03 ` David Woodhouse
2011-11-18 16:03   ` Alex Williamson
2011-11-18 17:00     ` David Woodhouse
2011-11-18 17:15       ` Alex Williamson
2011-11-18 18:15         ` David Woodhouse
2011-11-19 19:17   ` Chris Wright
2011-11-19 20:11     ` David Woodhouse
2011-11-23  7:30   ` cody
2011-11-22 15:41     ` David Woodhouse

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