Re: [Xen-devel] Using arch/x86_64/pci-dma in x86_64 Xen

[Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:57:35AM -0500, Langsdorf, Mark wrote:

> The current implementation of pci-dma in x86_64 Xen
> Linux is to use the i386 implementation.  I don't
> believe this is sustainable in the long term, as
> x86_64 Xen is going to need more DMA solutions than
> just SWIOTLB and plain hardware as various IOMMU 
> implementations arrive.

100% agreed.

> The mainstream kernel has a clean abstraction layer
> with the dma_ops that should be portable to Xen dom0
> and domU.  I've started implementing this in a
> pci-dma-xen for x86_64 Xen Linux.  Am I stepping on 
> anyone's toes or is there anyone I should be 
> co-ordinating this with?

Please keep Jon and me in the loop, we added the dma_ops to the main
kernel for the Calgary IOMMU but haven't got around to porting the
various Xen dma ops to it.

Also, I believe Christian had some thoughts about the direction going
forward for the Xen specific dma ops?

Cheers,
Muli

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