linux-kernel - Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 4/8] KVM: PVDMA: Introduce is_pv

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Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:52:01 +0200
From:	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>
To:	Amit Shah <amit.shah@...ranet.com>
Cc:	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 4/8] KVM: PVDMA: Introduce is_pv_device() dma operation

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:21:05PM +0200, Amit Shah wrote:

> A guest can call dma_ops->is_pv_device() to find out if a device is
> a passthrough'ed device (device passed on to a guest by the
> host). If this is true, a hypercall will be made to translate DMA
> mapping operations.

Doesn't really belong in the DMA mapping API. Instead what I think we
should do is to cache this (per device) value in the pci_device struct
(or device struct?) and in the dma-ops implementation inspect it to
decide exactly how to do DMA mapping for this device.

Cheers,
Muli
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