Message ID | 20220606061927.26049-1-nicolinc@nvidia.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | Simplify vfio_iommu_type1 attach/detach routine | expand |
On 2022/6/6 14:19, Nicolin Chen wrote: > Worths mentioning the exact match for enforce_cache_coherency is removed > with this series, since there's very less value in doing that since KVM > won't be able to take advantage of it -- this just wastes domain memory. > Instead, we rely on Intel IOMMU driver taking care of that internally. After reading this series, I don't see that Intel IOMMU driver needs any further change to support the new scheme. Did I miss anything? Best regards, baolu
On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 03:44:43PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote: > On 2022/6/6 14:19, Nicolin Chen wrote: > > Worths mentioning the exact match for enforce_cache_coherency is removed > > with this series, since there's very less value in doing that since KVM > > won't be able to take advantage of it -- this just wastes domain memory. > > Instead, we rely on Intel IOMMU driver taking care of that internally. > > After reading this series, I don't see that Intel IOMMU driver needs any > further change to support the new scheme. Did I miss anything? You already did it :) Jason
On 2022/6/7 19:58, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 03:44:43PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote: >> On 2022/6/6 14:19, Nicolin Chen wrote: >>> Worths mentioning the exact match for enforce_cache_coherency is removed >>> with this series, since there's very less value in doing that since KVM >>> won't be able to take advantage of it -- this just wastes domain memory. >>> Instead, we rely on Intel IOMMU driver taking care of that internally. >> >> After reading this series, I don't see that Intel IOMMU driver needs any >> further change to support the new scheme. Did I miss anything? > > You already did it :) Just as I thought. Thank you! Best regards, baolu