On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:36:19AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:21:12 +0200
> Joerg Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > this patch series implements stackable dma_ops on x86. This is useful
> > to be able to fall back to a different dma_ops implementation if one
> > can not handle a particular device (as necessary for example with
> > paravirtualized device passthrough or if a hardware IOMMU only
> > handles a subset of available devices).
>
> isn't the right answer here to have a per device DMA ops instead ?
Its implemented using the per-device dma-ops already there. With this
patches there is a list of available dma_ops implementations which are
asked in a particular order if they can handle the device. The first
implementation which returns true is assigned to the device as the
per-device dma_ops structure.
(Hmm, maybe the name stackable is misleading, is "dma_ops multiplexing"
better?)
Joerg
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