From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
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Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 RFC] fixup! virtio: convert to use DMA api
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:58:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160427145851.GJ17926@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160427175031-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 05:54:57PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Point is, QEMU is not the only virtio implementation out there.
> So we can't know no virtio implementations have an IOMMU as long as
> linux supports this IOMMU.
> virtio always used physical addresses since it was born and if it
> changes that it must do this in a way that does not break existing
> users.
FWIW, virtio in qemu can continue to just use physical addresses. But
qemu needs to advertise that fact correctly to the OS in the DMAR table.
This way old kernels (where virtio does not use DMA-API) will also
continue to work on the fixed qemu.
Joerg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-27 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-21 13:43 [PATCH V2 RFC] fixup! virtio: convert to use DMA api Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-21 13:54 ` Wei Liu
2016-04-27 12:18 ` David Woodhouse
2016-04-27 13:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-27 14:23 ` Joerg Roedel
2016-04-27 14:31 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-27 14:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-27 14:43 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-27 14:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-27 14:58 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2016-04-27 15:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-27 15:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-27 14:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-27 14:56 ` Joerg Roedel
2016-04-27 15:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-27 15:15 ` David Woodhouse
2016-04-27 18:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-27 19:16 ` David Woodhouse
2016-04-28 14:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-28 15:11 ` David Woodhouse
2016-04-28 15:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-28 15:48 ` David Woodhouse
2016-05-01 10:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-09 11:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-04-21 14:56 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-04-21 15:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-04-22 9:33 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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