Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8] KVM: PPC: reserve a capability and ioctl numbers for realmode VFIO | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:26:31 +1000 |
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On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 10:51 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > The ioctl I made up is basically a copy of KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE which does > the same thing for emulated devices and it is there for quite a while but > it is not really extensible. And these two ioctls share some bits of code. > Now we will have 2 pieces of code which do almost the same thing but in a > different way. Kinda sucks :(
Right. Thus the question, Gleb, we can either:
- Keep Alexey patch as-is allowing us to *finally* merge that stuff that's been around for monthes
- Convert *both* existing TCE objects to the new KVM_CREATE_DEVICE, and have some backward compat code for the old one.
I don't think it makes sense to have the "emulated TCE" and "IOMMU TCE" objects use a fundamentally different API and infrastructure.
> >> So my stuff is not going to upstream again. Heh. Ok. I'll implement it. > >> > > Thanks! Should I keep KVM_CAP_SPAPR_MULTITCE capability patch or can I > > drop it for now? > > Please keep it, it is unrelated to the IOMMU-VFIO thing.
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