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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:44:07 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
CC: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Tom Lyon <pugs@...co.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
hjk@...utronix.de, gregkh@...e.de, aafabbri@...co.com,
scofeldm@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers
On 06/02/2010 07:53 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Avi Kivity (avi@...hat.com) wrote:
>
>> The interface would only work for clients which support it: kvm,
>> vhost, and iommu/devices with restartable dma.
>>
> BTW, there is no such thing as restartable dma. There is a provision in
> new specs (read: no real hardware) that allows a device to request pages
> before using them. So it's akin to demand paging, but the demand is an
> explicit request rather than a page fault.
>
Thanks for the correction.
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