Status update for tcm_vhost driver merge

2012-07-27 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
Hello folks, The RFC-v5 patch for tcm_vhost kernel code was sent out for review a bit less than 24 hours ago, and thus far there has not been any additional comments.. Thanks to everyone who has been participating in the various threads over the past week and giving their feedback! Also, just a

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Status update

2010-07-02 Thread Isaku Yamahata
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:03:39AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu eduard.munte...@linux360.ro wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:37:31AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu

Re: Status update

2010-07-02 Thread Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:03:39AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: That's true, but it's fair to be concerned about the guest itself. Imagine it runs some possibly malicious apps which program the hardware to do DMA. That should be safe when a IOMMU is present. But suddenly the guest OS

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Status update

2010-07-02 Thread Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 06:41:55PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:03:39AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu eduard.munte...@linux360.ro wrote: But suddenly the guest OS changes mappings and expects the IOMMU to

Re: Status update

2010-07-01 Thread Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:37:31AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu eduard.munte...@linux360.ro wrote: On the other hand, we could just leave it alone for now. Changing mappings during DMA is stupid anyway: I don't think the guest can

Re: Status update

2010-06-30 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu eduard.munte...@linux360.ro wrote: On the other hand, we could just leave it alone for now. Changing mappings during DMA is stupid anyway: I don't think the guest can recover the results of DMA safely, even though it might be used on

Status update

2010-06-29 Thread Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
Hi everybody, Here's a status update (a public one this time) on my work: --- Accomplishments: - [DONE] Generic IOMMU API for devices - [DONE] PIIX IDE uses the new API - [DONE] Permissions handling Bonus: - [DONE] RTL8139 converted Objectives: - [WIP] Reporting IO page faults in the event

Re: kernel status update

2008-11-06 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 14:44 -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote: * Yu's idea about TLB handling was great, and I saw about a 20% performance improvement on a couple small workloads on 440. Very happy about that one. :) This patch, which I'll call the direct TLB patch,

RE: kernel status update

2008-11-02 Thread Liu Yu
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hollis Blanchard Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 3:44 AM To: kvm-ppc Subject: kernel status update I've posted most of the patches here before, but I've built up a small backlog of patches

kernel status update

2008-10-31 Thread Hollis Blanchard
I've posted most of the patches here before, but I've built up a small backlog of patches to be pushed upstream. I've been running with them long enough to be happy with them, and I've just posted them all to http://penguinppc.org/~hollisb/kvm/patches/ There are two really minor patches I want to