RE: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] vfio: VFIO Driver core framework

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> From: Wood Scott-B07421
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> To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777
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> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] vfio: VFIO Driver core framework
> 
> On 12/02/2011 12:11 PM, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote:
> > How do we determine whether guest is ready or not? There can be
> multiple device get ready at different time.
> 
> The guest makes a hypercall with a device handle -- at least that's how
> we do it in Topaz.

Yes, it is ok from hcall with device handle perspective.
But I could not understood how cleanly this can be handled with the idea of enabling iommu when guest is ready.

Thanks
-Bharat

> 
> > Further if guest have given the device to it user level process or its
> guest. Should not there be some mechanism for a guest to enable/disable
> on per device or group?
> 
> Yes, the same mechanism can be used for that -- though in that case we'll
> also want the ability for the guest to be able to control another layer
> of mapping (which will get quite tricky with PAMU's limitations).
>  This isn't really VFIO's concern, though (unless you're talking about
> the VFIO implementation in the guest).

May be thinking too ahead, but will not something like this will be needed for nested virtualization?

Thanks
-Bharat

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