From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60508) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eslPB-0006hB-Of for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 03:23:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eslP7-0004w6-NO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 03:23:33 -0500 Received: from mga18.intel.com ([134.134.136.126]:62790) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eslP7-0004ug-Cc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 03:23:29 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 16:06:40 +0800 From: "Liu, Yi L" Message-ID: <20180305080640.GB2482@sky-dev> References: <1519900322-30263-1-git-send-email-yi.l.liu@linux.intel.com> <20180301152451-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180301152451-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/12] Introduce new iommu notifier framework for virt-SVA List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, pbonzini@redhat.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, eric.auger.pro@gmail.com On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 03:32:22PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 06:31:50PM +0800, Liu, Yi L wrote: > > This patchset is to introduce a notifier framework for virt-SVA. > > You may find virt-SVA design details from the link below. > > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg04925.html > > > > SVA is short for Shared Virtual Addressing. This is also called Shared > > Virtual Memory in previous patchsets. However, SVM is confusing as it > > can also be short for Secure Virtual Machine. So this patchset use > > Shared Virtual Addressing instead of Shared Virtual Memory. And it > > would be applied in future (SVA)related patch series as well. > > Just as a matter of naming, it might be a good idea to just call > this feature "PASID support". QEMU only cares about the mechanism, > now about how applications use it. Thanks for the idea. Will apply it in the next version. Regards, Yi Liu