Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/12] Introduce new iommu notifier framework for virt-SVA

[Liu, Yi L]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 03:32:22PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 06:31:50PM +0800, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> > This patchset is to introduce a notifier framework for virt-SVA.
> > You may find virt-SVA design details from the link below.
> > 
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-04/msg04925.html
> > 
> > SVA is short for Shared Virtual Addressing. This is also called Shared
> > Virtual Memory in previous patchsets. However, SVM is confusing as it
> > can also be short for Secure Virtual Machine. So this patchset use
> > Shared Virtual Addressing instead of Shared Virtual Memory. And it
> > would be applied in future (SVA)related patch series as well.
> 
> Just as a matter of naming, it might be a good idea to just call
> this feature "PASID support". QEMU only cares about the mechanism,
> now about how applications use it.

Thanks for the idea. Will apply it in the next version.

Regards,
Yi Liu