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To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>
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Subject: Re: PV DMA for PCI passthrough devices for KVM
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:15:24 +0200
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Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com> writes:

> This patchset implements PVDMA for handling DMA requests from
> devices assigned to the guest from the host machine.

You forgot to post a high level design overview of how this works,
what it is good for, what are the design trade offs etc.? 

Include that in the first patch.

-Andi