Re: [PATCH 00/34] AMD IOMMU driver

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 04:19:14 EST



* Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this is the first post of the initial driver for AMD IOMMU hardware.
> The driver is tested on hardware with various loads (disk and network)
> and showed no problems.
>
> It currently supports DMA remapping using the dma_ops API in the x86
> architecture code. It also supports isolation of device DMA address
> spaces as far as the hardware allows that (means each device can get
> its own DMA address space and can't access the DMA memory of other
> devices).

the code looks very clean. I guess down the line we might want to think
about making all the externally visible knobs transparent: there should
be only one way to disable the iommu via the boot command line (be that
an AMD or Intel one), etc.

i have created a new -tip topic for this: tip/x86/amd-iommu and have
applied your patches there - thanks Joerg. You can pick up the
integrated tree via:

http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README

please check whether the integrated end result still works fine.
[ Obviously nobody but you can test this on real hw ;-) ]

Ingo
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