linux-kernel - Re: RFC: Device isolation infrastructure

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Message-ID: <1323238949.660.65.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:22:29 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Cc:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>, joerg.roedel@....com,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	aik@....ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, chrisw@...hat.com,
	agraf@...e.de, scottwood@...escale.com, B08248@...escale.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Device isolation infrastructure

On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:58 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> Alex Williamson recently posted some patches adding a new hook to
> iommu_ops to identify groups of devices which cannot reliably be
> distinguished by the iommu, and therefore can only safely be assigned
> as a unit to a guest or userspace driver.

Please ignore the numeros typos, David is typing all of that with a
broken hand in a cast... 

Cheers,
Ben.

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