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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediated device support[was: Add
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Jike Song |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediated device support[was: Add vGPU support] |
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Tue, 31 May 2016 10:29:10 +0800 |
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On 05/28/2016 10:56 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2016 22:43:54 +0000
> "Tian, Kevin" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> My impression was that you don't like hypervisor specific thing in VFIO,
>> which makes it a bit tricky to accomplish those tasks in kernel. If we
>> can add Xen specific logic directly in VFIO (like vfio-iommu-xen you
>> mentioned), the whole thing would be easier.
>
> If vfio is hosted in dom0, then Xen is the platform and we need to
> interact with the hypervisor to manage the iommu. That said, there are
> aspects of vfio that do not seem to map well to a hypervisor managed
> iommu or a Xen-like hypervisor. For instance, how does dom0 manage
> iommu groups and what's the distinction of using vfio to manage a
> userspace driver in dom0 versus managing a device for another domain.
> In the case of kvm, vfio has no dependency on kvm, there is some minor
> interaction, but we're not running on kvm and it's not appropriate to
> use vfio as a gateway to interact with a hypervisor that may or may not
> exist. Thanks,
Hi Alex,
Beyond iommu, there are other aspects vfio need to interact with Xen?
e.g. to pass-through MMIO, one have to call hypercalls to establish EPT
mappings.
--
Thanks,
Jike
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 1/3] Mediated device Core driver, (continued)
[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 3/3] VFIO Type1 IOMMU: Add support for mediated devices, Kirti Wankhede, 2016/05/24
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediated device support[was: Add vGPU support], Tian, Kevin, 2016/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediated device support[was: Add vGPU support], Alex Williamson, 2016/05/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediated device support[was: Add vGPU support], Tian, Kevin, 2016/05/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediated device support[was: Add vGPU support], Alex Williamson, 2016/05/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediated device support[was: Add vGPU support], Tian, Kevin, 2016/05/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediated device support[was: Add vGPU support], Alex Williamson, 2016/05/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediated device support[was: Add vGPU support],
Jike Song <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v4 0/3] Add Mediated device support[was: Add vGPU support], Alex Williamson, 2016/05/31