Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 RFC] fixup! virtio: convert to use DMA api

[Joerg Roedel]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 05:54:57PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Point is, QEMU is not the only virtio implementation out there.
> So we can't know no virtio implementations have an IOMMU as long as
> linux supports this IOMMU.
> virtio always used physical addresses since it was born and if it
> changes that it must do this in a way that does not break existing
> users.

FWIW, virtio in qemu can continue to just use physical addresses. But
qemu needs to advertise that fact correctly to the OS in the DMAR table.
This way old kernels (where virtio does not use DMA-API) will also
continue to work on the fixed qemu.



        Joerg