Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754857AbXFZGqS (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:46:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751147AbXFZGqJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:46:09 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:51410 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750832AbXFZGqH (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:46:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:45:50 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, gregkh@suse.de, muli@il.ibm.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, ashok.raj@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net, clameter@sgi.com Subject: Re: [Intel IOMMU 00/10] Intel IOMMU support, take #2 Message-Id: <20070625234550.058635cb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070619213701.219910000@askeshav-devel.jf.intel.com> References: <20070619213701.219910000@askeshav-devel.jf.intel.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 18 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:37:01 -0700 "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" wrote: > This patch supports the upcomming Intel IOMMU hardware > a.k.a. Intel(R) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O > Architecture So... what's all this code for? I assume that the intent here is to speed things up under Xen, etc? Do we have any benchmark results to help us to decide whether a merge would be justified? Does it slow anything down? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/