Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] vfio-pci: Allow write combining

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On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 18:36 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> 
> 1. Allow msix mapping to the userspace (to address non-64k-aligned msix bar)
> 
> 2. Allow write combining in vfio for the userspace (kvm guest is kinda
> special and may simply ignore mapping flags in some configs but PPC radix
> guests still rely on this)

Why ? The "G" bit is entirely under control of the guest afaik. This
would only affect qemu itself. It's still useful for things like dpdk
using vfio.

> 3. what callback and where needs to be added to inform HV/PR KVM about VFIO
> group, like IOMMUMR::add_vfio_group() proposal or something.

Can you elaborate a bit ? I haven't followed this.

Cheers,
Ben.




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