> From: Peter Xu [mailto:peterx@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 1:23 AM > To: Liu, Yi L <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [RFC v2 00/22] intel_iommu: expose Shared Virtual Addressing to VM > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 08:34:21AM -0400, Liu Yi L wrote: > > Shared virtual address (SVA), a.k.a, Shared virtual memory (SVM) on > > Intel platforms allow address space sharing between device DMA and applications. > > SVA can reduce programming complexity and enhance security. > > This series is intended to expose SVA capability to VMs. i.e. shared > > guest application address space with passthru devices. The whole SVA > > virtualization requires QEMU/VFIO/IOMMU changes. This series includes > > the QEMU changes, for VFIO and IOMMU changes, they are in separate > > series (listed in the "Related series"). > > [...] > > Yi, > > Would you mind to always mention what tests you have been done with the > patchset in the cover letter? It'll be fine to say that you're running this against FPGAs > so no one could really retest it, but still it would be good to know that as well. It'll > even be better to mention that which part of the series is totally untested if you are > aware of. Sure, I should have included the test parts. Will do in next version. Thanks, Yi Liu
