On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 06:32:15PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 03/25/2010 06:23 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> There has been previous discussion of virtio, however while virtio is >>> good for exporting guest memory, it's not ideal for importing memory >>> into a guest. >> >> virtio is a DMA-based API which means that it doesn't assume cache >> coherent shared memory. The PCI transport takes advantage of cache >> coherent shared memory but it's not strictly required. > > Aren't we violating this by not using dma_alloc_coherent() for the queues?
I don't see what changing this would buys us though, unless a non-cache coherent architecture implements kvm. TCG runs everything on a single processor so there are no cache coherency issues. > -- > error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
