Re: [RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager

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On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 21:38 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > > Also for me it's still quite unclear why we would want this code at all...
> > > It doesn't seem to do anything you couldn't do with the existing interfaces.
> > 
> > I don't know all that much about what Zach's done here, but from what
> > he's said so far it looks like this help to manage lots of IOMMUs on a
> > single system.. On x86 it seems like there's not all that many IOMMUs in
> > comparison .. Zach mentioned 10 to 100 IOMMUs ..
> 
> The current code can manage multiple IOMMUs fine.

He demonstrated the usage of his code in one of the emails he sent out
initially. Did you go over that, and what (or how many) step would you
use with the current code to do the same thing?

Daniel

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