Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86: per-device dma_mapping_ops

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:26:31PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 06:41:26PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> 
> > I thought that KVM people want to do it per device (in the first
> > case). So with my patchse, they can replace the dma_ops pointer in
> > dev_archdata with what they want.
> 
> That's my understanding too. We use stackable ops as a poor man's
> replacement for per-device ops (depending on what kind of device it
> is, call the original ops or our pvdma ops).

But in the KVM case you still need to support the underlying ops too, e.g. in 
case of bouncing through swiotlb needed

-Andi
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