Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH qemu v6 12/15] spapr_vfio_pci: Remove redundant spapr-pci-vfio-host-bridge

[David Gibson]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 01:24:41AM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> sPAPRTCETable is handling 2 TCE tables already:
> 
> 1) guest view of the TCE table - emulated devices use only this table;
> 
> 2) hardware IOMMU table - VFIO PCI devices use it for actual work but
> it does not replace 1) and it is not visible to the guest.
> The initialization of this table is driven by vfio-pci device,
> DMA map/unmap requests are handled via MemoryListener so there is very
> little to do in spapr-pci-vfio-host-bridge.
> 
> This moves VFIO bits to the generic spapr-pci-host-bridge which allows
> putting emulated and VFIO devices on the same PHB. It is still possible
> to create multiple PHBs and avoid sharing PHB resouces for emulated and
> VFIO devices.
> 
> If there is no VFIO-PCI device attaches, no special ioctls will be called.
> If there are some VFIO-PCI devices attached, PHB may refuse to attach
> another VFIO-PCI device if a VFIO container on the host kernel side
> does not support
> container sharing.
> 
> This changes spapr-pci-host-bridge to support properties of
> spapr-pci-vfio-host-bridge. This makes spapr-pci-vfio-host-bridge type
> equal to spapr-pci-host-bridge.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>

> ---
> 
> How do create aliases for types?

^^ I assume this is left over from some notes of your own?

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