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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:54:57 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> This is a PCI device that implements a transport for virtio.  It allows virtio
>> devices to be used by QEMU based VMMs like KVM or Xen.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Didn't see support for dma.

Not sure what you're expecting there.  Using dma_ops in virtio_ring?

>  I think that with Amit's pvdma patches you
> can support dma-capable devices as well without too much fuss.
>   

What is the use case you're thinking of?  A semi-paravirt driver that 
does dma directly to a device?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


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