[PATCH 3/6] powerpc: Prepare to support kernel handling of IOMMU map/unmap

2013-05-06 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
The current VFIO-on-POWER implementation supports only user mode driven mapping, i.e. QEMU is sending requests to map/unmap pages. However this approach is really slow, so we want to move that to KVM. Since H_PUT_TCE can be extremely performance sensitive (especially with network adapters where

[PATCH 3/6] powerpc: Prepare to support kernel handling of IOMMU map/unmap

2013-05-06 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
The current VFIO-on-POWER implementation supports only user mode driven mapping, i.e. QEMU is sending requests to map/unmap pages. However this approach is really slow, so we want to move that to KVM. Since H_PUT_TCE can be extremely performance sensitive (especially with network adapters where