Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:53:59 +0100 | From | Gerd Hoffmann <> | Subject | Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/8] KVM: PVDMA Guest: Guest-side routines for paravirtualized DMA |
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Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:04PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote: > >> We make the dma_mapping_ops structure to point to our structure so >> that every DMA access goes through us. (This is the reason this only >> works for 64-bit guest. 32-bit guest doesn't yet have a dma_ops >> struct.) > > I need the same facility for Calgary for falling back to swiotlb if a > translation is disabled on some slot, and IB needs the same facility > for some IB adapters (e.g., ipath). Perhaps it's time to consider > stackable dma-ops (unless someone has a better idea...).
Hmm, at least the later sounds like for per-device dma_ops would be more useful that stackable ones, as each stack instance just checks "should I do something for device $foo, if not, call the next one ...".
cheers, Gerd
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