Re: [PATCH RFC] fixup! virtio: convert to use DMA api

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Apr 19 2016 - 12:04:54 EST


On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 09:00:27AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2016 2:13 AM, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I guess you are right in that we should split this part out.
> > What I wanted is really the combination
> > PASSTHROUGH && !PLATFORM so that we can say "ok we don't
> > need to guess, this device actually bypasses the IOMMU".
>
> What happens when you use a device like this on Xen or with a similar
> software translation layer?

I think you don't use it on Xen since virtio doesn't bypass an IOMMU there.
If you do you have misconfigured your device.

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