Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Add support for non-CPU TLBs in MMU-Notifiers

From: Robin Holt
Date: Wed Nov 02 2011 - 05:46:10 EST


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is my first attempt to add support for non-CPU TLBs to the
> MMU-Notifier framework. This will be used by the AMD IOMMU driver for
> the next generation of hardware. The next version of the AMD IOMMU can
> walk page-tables in AMD64 long-mode format (with setting
> accessed/dirty-bits atomically) and save the translations in its own
> TLB. Page faulting for IO devices is supported too. This will be used to
> let hardware devices share page-tables with CPU processes and access
> their memory directly. Please look at
>
> http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/48882.pdf

...

Did this patch set get any review or traction? Perhaps you should have
included the linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx mailing list.

Robin
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