netdev - Re: [kvm-devel] QEMU PIC indirection patch for in-kernel APIC work

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Date:	Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:04:29 +0300
From:	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] QEMU PIC indirection patch for in-kernel APIC work

On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 08:36:14AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:

> That is not the common case.  Nor is it true when there is a
> mismatch between the card's capabilties and guest expectations and
> constraints.  For example, guest memory is not physically contiguous
> so a NIC that won't do scatter/gather will require bouncing (or an
> iommu, but that's not here yet).

Actually, Allen Key from Intel just posted the first VT-d patches to
xen-devel a couple of days ago. I wonder if anyone is working on kvm
support (which would require Linux support).

Cheers,
Muli
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