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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 5/8] iommu/vt-d: Add first level page table interfaces
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Hi Jacob,

On 12/3/19 7:27 AM, Jacob Pan wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 10:25:47 +0800
> Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
>> This adds functions to manipulate first level page tables
>> which could be used by a scalale mode capable IOMMU unit.
>>
> FL and SL page tables are very similar, and I presume we are not using
> all the flag bits in FL paging structures for DMA mapping. Are there
> enough relevant differences to warrant a new set of helper functions
> for FL? Or we can merge into one.

I evaluated your suggestion these days. It turned out that your
suggestion make code simpler and easier for maintainence. Thank you for
the comment and I will send out a new version for review soon.

Best regards,
baolu

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