Re: [PATCH 03/10] vfio: add external user support

2013-08-05 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 19:07 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 07/23/2013 12:23 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 10:53 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >> VFIO is designed to be used via ioctls on file descriptors > >> returned by VFIO. > >> > >> However in some situati

Re: [PATCH 03/10] vfio: add external user support

2013-07-23 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 07/23/2013 12:23 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 10:53 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >> VFIO is designed to be used via ioctls on file descriptors >> returned by VFIO. >> >> However in some situations support for an external user is required. >> The first user is KVM on P

Re: [PATCH 03/10] vfio: add external user support

2013-07-22 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 10:53 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > VFIO is designed to be used via ioctls on file descriptors > returned by VFIO. > > However in some situations support for an external user is required. > The first user is KVM on PPC64 (SPAPR TCE protocol) which is going to > use the

[PATCH 03/10] vfio: add external user support

2013-07-15 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
VFIO is designed to be used via ioctls on file descriptors returned by VFIO. However in some situations support for an external user is required. The first user is KVM on PPC64 (SPAPR TCE protocol) which is going to use the existing VFIO groups for exclusive access in real/virtual mode on a host t