Re: [PATCH 5/5] iommu: Add DOMAIN_ATTR_WINDOWS domain attribute

[Joerg Roedel]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 09:14:40AM +0000, Sethi Varun-B16395 wrote:
> In case of PAMU, geometry would be meaningless without specifying the
> number of subwindows. If the API user specifies a geometry but fails
> to specify the number of required subwindows, we would assume a
> default (max supported) value, which may be incorrect. It's going to
> be really ugly. I think we should add the number of sub windows to the
> domain geometry. This parameter would be used in case of a window
> based iommu. So, a separate set_window API wouldn't be required.

I think this can all be implemented with the interface proposed here
together with a PAMU-specific DOMAIN_ATTR_PAMU_ENABLE attribute. Stuart
outlined in his RFC mail how this can be done. I don't consider this
ugly, it is rather a clean tradeoff between putting functionality into
the generic part of the IOMMU-API and putting it into the PAMU specific
part.

Regards,

	Joerg


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