From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, anthony@codemonkey.ws
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/13] usb: Convert usb_packet_{map, unmap} to universal DMA helpers
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:54:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE19DD6.9060707@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1340184341.28143.144.camel@pasglop>
Hi,
> [ lots of interesting background info snipped ]
> It's all doable, it's also a bit tricky, potentially quite a bit of
> code, new KVM/qemu interfaces, etc... for a problem that's going to be a
> non-issue pretty much 99.9% of the time :-) We still need to address it,
> but I haven't convinced myself yet that I have come up with the best
> solution :-)
Yea, sure, it's in the "nice-to-have" not "must-have" category. And
adding complex code which almost never actually runs needs some care
indeed. Not having that for the initial merge is perfectly fine with
me, just wanted to know what dragons might be lurking there ;)
Oh, and: Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-20 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-19 6:39 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] iommu series Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Better support for dma_addr_t variables Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 21:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-20 21:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-21 1:44 ` David Gibson
2012-06-20 22:26 ` Peter Maydell
2012-06-20 22:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-21 7:54 ` Peter Maydell
2012-06-22 1:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/13] Implement cpu_physical_memory_set() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 21:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-20 21:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 21:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-21 1:45 ` David Gibson
2012-06-21 1:46 ` David Gibson
2012-06-21 2:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-22 1:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/13] iommu: Add universal DMA helper functions Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 21:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-20 21:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-20 21:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-20 21:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-20 21:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-20 22:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-20 21:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 21:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-20 22:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-21 1:48 ` David Gibson
2012-06-22 2:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/13] usb-ohci: Use " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 21:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-20 21:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 21:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-20 22:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-21 7:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-21 12:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-21 14:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-22 2:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-21 6:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/13] iommu: Make sglists and dma_bdrv helpers use new universal DMA helpers Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 21:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-20 21:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/13] ide/ahci: Use universal DMA helper functions Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/13] usb: Convert usb_packet_{map, unmap} to universal DMA helpers Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 13:42 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-06-19 20:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 3:14 ` David Gibson
2012-06-20 3:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-21 1:42 ` David Gibson
2012-06-20 6:25 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-06-20 9:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 9:54 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/13] iommu: Introduce IOMMU emulation infrastructure Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/13] iommu: Add facility to cancel in-use dma memory maps Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 21:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-06-20 21:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-22 3:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/13] pseries: Convert sPAPR TCEs to use generic IOMMU infrastructure Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/13] iommu: Allow PCI to use " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/13] pseries: Implement IOMMU and DMA for PAPR PCI devices Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-19 6:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/13] Add a memory barrier to DMA functions Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-06-20 21:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] iommu series Anthony Liguori
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-10 4:48 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] IOMMU infrastructure Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-05-10 4:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/13] usb: Convert usb_packet_{map, unmap} to universal DMA helpers Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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