Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] vfio: Move container list to DMAContext

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:33:33PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 24/04/2013 17:12, Alex Williamson ha scritto:
> >> > At the moment, vfio maintains a global list of containers that are 
> >> > assumed
> >> > to be more or less interchangeable, since they are all set up with a
> >> > MemoryListener to have all of system memory mapped.  However, that only
> >> > makes sense if all the containers are used on devices which really do
> >> > expect a dma address space identical to system memory.
> >> > 
> >> > This patch moves towards that by making the list of containers per
> >> > DMAContext (which corresponds to a dma address space) instead of global.
> > This seems like an unnecessary intrusion into common code.  Why not
> > create a vfio specific list of dma objects, each with a list of
> > containers?  Thanks,
> 
> Yeah, I suggest that this is re-evaluated on top of the iommu patches.

> You can find them at git://github.com/bonzini/qemu.git, branch iommu.
> It seems to work with pseries, at least my guest crashes at the same
> place with and without.  USB works, and so do VGA and spapr-vscsi.

Ok, I'll have a look when I get a chance.  Any guesses as to when they
might reach mainline?

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