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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>,
	ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de,
	j.fanguede@virtualopensystems.com,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, m.smarduch@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC/RFT PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: Introduce KVM_MEM_UNCACHED
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 14:08:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55549051.1090007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150514120039.GU32765@cbox>



On 14/05/2015 14:00, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> So, getting back to my original question.  Is the point then that UEFI
> must assume (from ACPI/DT) the cache-coherency properties of the PCI
> controller which exists in hardware on the system you're running on,
> even for the virtual PCI bus because that will be the semantics for
> assigned devices?
> 
> And in that case, we have no way to distinguish between passthrough
> devices and virtual devices plugged into the virtual PCI bus?

Well, we could use the subsystem id.  But it's a hack, and may cause
incompatibilities with some drivers.  Michael, any ideas?

> What about the idea of having two virtual PCI buses on your system where
> one is always cache-coherent and uses for virtual devices, and the other
> is whatever the hardware is and used for passthrough devices?

I think that was rejected before.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-14 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-13 11:31 [Qemu-devel] [RFC/RFT PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: Introduce KVM_MEM_UNCACHED Andrew Jones
2015-05-13 11:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC/RFT PATCH v2 1/3] arm/arm64: pageattr: add set_memory_nc Andrew Jones
2015-05-14 11:05   ` Christoffer Dall
2015-05-14 13:46     ` Andrew Jones
2015-05-15 14:51       ` Christoffer Dall
2015-05-18 15:53       ` Catalin Marinas
2015-05-19 10:03         ` Andrew Jones
2015-05-19 11:18           ` Catalin Marinas
2015-05-19 11:38             ` Andrew Jones
2015-05-20 10:01             ` Christoffer Dall
2015-05-20 11:24               ` Catalin Marinas
2015-05-23  1:08         ` Mario Smarduch
2015-05-25 17:11           ` Andrew Jones
2015-05-27  1:08             ` Mario Smarduch
2015-05-13 11:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC/RFT PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: promote KVM_MEMSLOT_INCOHERENT to uapi Andrew Jones
2015-05-14 10:12   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-14 10:34   ` Christoffer Dall
2015-05-13 11:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC/RFT PATCH v2 3/3] arm/arm64: KVM: implement 'uncached' mem coherency Andrew Jones
2015-05-14 10:55   ` Christoffer Dall
2015-05-14 13:32     ` Andrew Jones
2015-05-15 15:02       ` Christoffer Dall
2015-05-15 17:04         ` Andrew Jones
2015-05-15 20:16           ` Jérémy Fanguède
2015-05-21  2:29           ` Mario Smarduch
2015-05-21 16:50             ` Andrew Jones
2015-05-14 10:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC/RFT PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: Introduce KVM_MEM_UNCACHED Christoffer Dall
2015-05-14 11:09   ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-05-14 11:29     ` Christoffer Dall
2015-05-14 11:31       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-14 11:36         ` Christoffer Dall
2015-05-14 11:38           ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-14 12:00             ` Christoffer Dall
2015-05-14 12:08               ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-05-14 12:24                 ` Christoffer Dall
2015-05-14 12:28                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-14 12:34                     ` Christoffer Dall
2015-05-14 13:01                       ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-05-14 12:38                     ` Peter Maydell
2015-05-14 13:00                       ` Andrew Jones
2015-05-14 13:32                         ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-05-14 13:48                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-05-14 14:19                             ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-05-14 14:41                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-05-15  9:00                                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-05-14 10:31 ` Andrew Jones
2015-05-14 10:37   ` Peter Maydell
2015-05-14 13:03     ` Andrew Jones
2015-05-14 13:11       ` Peter Maydell
2015-05-14 13:33         ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-05-14 13:36         ` Andrew Jones
2015-05-15 15:09           ` Christoffer Dall

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