From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: chrisw <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@au1.ibm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <pmac@au1.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, aafabbri <aafabbri@cisco.com>,
iommu <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
benve@cisco.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:30:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E51F782.7060005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313859105.6866.192.camel@x201.home>
On 08/20/2011 07:51 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> We need to address both the description and enforcement of device
> groups. Groups are formed any time the iommu does not have resolution
> between a set of devices. On x86, this typically happens when a
> PCI-to-PCI bridge exists between the set of devices and the iommu. For
> Power, partitionable endpoints define a group. Grouping information
> needs to be exposed for both userspace and kernel internal usage. This
> will be a sysfs attribute setup by the iommu drivers. Perhaps:
>
> # cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/iommu_group
> 42
>
$ readlink /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/iommu_group
../../../path/to/device/which/represents/the/resource/constraint
(the pci-to-pci bridge on x86, or whatever node represents partitionable
endpoints on power)
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-22 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-07-30 18:20 ` [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings Alex Williamson
2011-07-30 23:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-01 18:59 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-02 2:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-07-30 23:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-02 8:28 ` David Gibson
2011-08-02 18:14 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-02 18:35 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-03 2:04 ` David Gibson
2011-08-03 3:44 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-04 0:39 ` David Gibson
2011-08-08 8:28 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-09 23:24 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-10 2:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-20 16:51 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-22 5:55 ` David Gibson
2011-08-22 15:45 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-22 21:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-23 19:30 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-23 23:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-24 3:40 ` Alexander Graf
2011-08-24 14:47 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-24 8:43 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-08-24 14:56 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-25 11:01 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-23 2:38 ` David Gibson
2011-08-23 16:23 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-23 23:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-24 3:36 ` Alexander Graf
2011-08-22 6:30 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-08-22 10:46 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-08-22 10:51 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-22 12:36 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-22 12:42 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-22 12:55 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-22 13:06 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-22 13:15 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-22 13:17 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-22 14:37 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-22 20:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-22 17:25 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-08-22 19:17 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-23 13:14 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-23 17:08 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-24 8:52 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-24 15:07 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-25 12:31 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-25 13:25 ` Alexander Graf
2011-08-26 4:24 ` David Gibson
2011-08-26 9:24 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-28 13:14 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-28 13:56 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-08-28 14:04 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-30 16:14 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-08-22 21:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-23 13:18 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-23 23:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-24 8:53 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-22 20:29 ` aafabbri
2011-08-22 20:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-22 21:38 ` aafabbri
2011-08-22 21:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-23 0:52 ` aafabbri
2011-08-23 6:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-08-23 11:09 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-08-23 17:01 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-23 17:33 ` Aaron Fabbri
2011-08-23 18:01 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-24 9:10 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-08-24 21:13 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-25 10:54 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-25 15:38 ` Don Dutile
2011-08-25 16:46 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-25 17:20 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-25 18:05 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-08-26 18:04 ` Alex Williamson
2011-08-30 16:13 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-08-23 11:04 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-08-23 16:54 ` aafabbri
2011-08-24 9:14 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-24 9:33 ` David Gibson
2011-08-24 11:03 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-26 4:20 ` David Gibson
2011-08-26 9:33 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-08-26 14:07 ` Alexander Graf
2011-08-26 15:24 ` Joerg Roedel
2011-08-26 15:29 ` Alexander Graf
2011-08-26 17:52 ` Aaron Fabbri
2011-08-26 19:35 ` Chris Wright
2011-08-26 20:17 ` Aaron Fabbri
2011-08-26 21:06 ` Chris Wright
2011-08-30 1:29 ` David Gibson
2011-08-04 10:35 ` Joerg Roedel
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