Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 0/2] x86: per-device dma_mapping_ops

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda
Date: Sun May 25 2008 - 03:20:27 EST


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:13:02PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:

> OK; this sounds helpful. the hook can make a hypercall and confirm
> with the host kernel if the device in question is an assigned
> physical device. If yes, we replace the dma_ops. Though, the
> original intent of having stackable ops is that we might want to go
> through the swiotlb in the guest even for an assigned device if the
> guest dma addresses are not in the addressable range of the guest
> chipset.
>
> > created (it works with hot plugging). It enables IOMMUs to set up an
> > appropriate dma_mapping_ops per device.
>
> From what we've discussed so far, it looks like stackable dma ops will
> definitely be needed. Does this patchset provide something that stacking
> won't?

Yes---this patchset let's you have a per-device dma-ops, whereas with
stackable you only get global dma-ops. I think it's clear we need
both, and I think per-device dma-ops are the first thing that's
needed. Stacking can then be introduced on a per-device basis.

Cheers,
Muli

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