Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] pseries: Allow writes to KVM accelerated TCE table

2011-10-30 Thread Alexander Graf
On 28.10.2011, at 03:56, David Gibson wrote: > Sufficiently recent kernels include a KVM call to accelerate use of > PAPR TCE tables (IOMMU), which are used by PAPR virtual IO devices. > This involves qemu mapping the TCE table in from a kernel obtained fd, > which currently we do with PROT_READ

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] pseries: Allow writes to KVM accelerated TCE table

2011-10-27 Thread David Gibson
Sufficiently recent kernels include a KVM call to accelerate use of PAPR TCE tables (IOMMU), which are used by PAPR virtual IO devices. This involves qemu mapping the TCE table in from a kernel obtained fd, which currently we do with PROT_READ only. This is a hangover from early (never released) v