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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH qemu v10 05/14] spapr_iommu: Introduce "enabled" s
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David Gibson |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH qemu v10 05/14] spapr_iommu: Introduce "enabled" state for TCE table |
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Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:07:32 +1000 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 12:11:01PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> Currently TCE tables are created once at start and their size never
> changes. We are going to change that by introducing a Dynamic DMA windows
> support where DMA configuration may change during the guest execution.
>
> This changes spapr_tce_new_table() to create an empty stub object. Only
> LIOBN is assigned by the time of creation. It still will be called once
> at the owner object (VIO or PHB) creation.
>
> This introduces an "enabled" state for TCE table objects with two
> helper functions - spapr_tce_table_enable()/spapr_tce_table_disable().
> spapr_tce_table_enable() receives TCE table parameters and allocates
> a guest view of the TCE table (in the user space or KVM).
> spapr_tce_table_disable() disposes the table.
>
> Follow up patches will disable+enable tables on reset (system reset
> or DDW reset).
>
> No visible change in behaviour is expected except the actual table
> will be reallocated every reset. We might optimize this later.
>
> The other way to implement this would be dynamically create/remove
> the TCE table QOM objects but this would make migration impossible
> as migration expects all QOM objects to exist at the receiver
> so we have to have TCE table objects created when migration begins.
>
> spapr_tce_table_do_enable() is separated from from spapr_tce_table_enable()
> as later it will be called at the sPAPRTCETable post-migration stage when
> it has all the properties set after the migration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
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- [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH qemu v10 14/14] spapr_pci/spapr_pci_vfio: Support Dynamic DMA Windows (DDW), (continued)
[Qemu-ppc] [PATCH qemu v10 05/14] spapr_iommu: Introduce "enabled" state for TCE table, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2015/07/05
Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH qemu v10 00/14] spapr: vfio: Enable Dynamic DMA windows (DDW), David Gibson, 2015/07/06
Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu v10 00/14] spapr: vfio: Enable Dynamic DMA windows (DDW), Thomas Huth, 2015/07/06