On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Joerg Roedel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 02:02:02PM +0900, KyongHo Cho wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Joerg Roedel <[email protected]> wrote: >> > It needs to be called whenever a some code changed a domain (either by >> > attaching/detaching devices or by mapping/unmapping pages in >> > the domain). >> >> Do you mean we can invalidate IOTLB with this iommu_commit()? >> We need to invalidate IOTLB without updating page table for some >> optimized solutions. >> >> If a device in one domain is moved to other domain, IOTLB of the >> device must be invalidated >> because it contains translation information of the previous domain. > > The classic use-case is to do a single iommu-tlb flush after a set of > page-table updates, but flushing iotlbs after moving devices is a > potential use-case too, so the answer is yes. >
Hi. In the 'next' branch of http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu.git, I found that iommu_commit() is removed. Why is it removed? BTW, the comment of struct iommu_ops still contains description about commit. Regards, KyongHo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
