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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	benami@il.ibm.com, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	amit.shah@qumranet.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, aliguori@us.ibm.com,
	allen.m.kay@intel.com, muli@il.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reserved-ram for pci-passthrough without VT-d capable hardware
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:17:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080729131735.GM30344@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080729125312.GL11494@duo.random>

> I'm not so interested to go there right now, because while this code
> is useful right now because the majority of systems out there lacks
> VT-d/iommu, I suspect this code could be nuked in the long
> run when all systems will ship with that, which is why I kept it all

Actually at least on Intel platforms and if you exclude the lowest end
VT-d is shipping universally for quite some time now. If you
buy a Intel box today or bought it in the last year the chances are pretty 
high that it has VT-d support.

> under #ifdef, and the changes to the other files outside ifdef are
> bugfixes needed if you want to kexec-relocate above 40m or so that
> should be kept.

You should split that out then into a separate patch.

-Andi

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-29 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1214232737-21267-1-git-send-email-benami@il.ibm.com>
     [not found] ` <1214232737-21267-2-git-send-email-benami@il.ibm.com>
     [not found]   ` <20080625005739.GM6938@duo.random>
2008-06-25  1:18     ` Andrea Arcangeli, Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-29 12:11       ` Andrea Arcangeli, Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-29 12:43         ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-29 12:53           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-29 13:17             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-07-30  6:20               ` Amit Shah
2008-07-30 12:27                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-30 13:58                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-30 14:16                   ` Dor Laor
2008-07-30 14:38                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-30 14:22                   ` FUJITA Tomonori

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