Re: [RFC XEN v1] docs/designs: Introduce IOMMU context management

[anshul makkar <anshulmakkar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/13/2024 3:49 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 23.04.2024 14:59, Teddy Astie wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/docs/designs/iommu-contexts.md
> > @@ -0,0 +1,373 @@
> > +# IOMMU context management in Xen
> > +
> > +Status: Experimental
> > +Revision: 0
> > +
> > +# Background
> > +
> > +The design for *IOMMU paravirtualization for Dom0* [1] explains that some 
> > guests may
> > +want to access to IOMMU features. In order to implement this in Xen, several 
> > adjustments
> > +needs to be made to the IOMMU subsystem.
> > +
> > +This "hardware IOMMU domain"
> One very basic question up front, before I can even think of properly reading 
> this
> doc: Here you refer to terminology used in that other doc, yet ...
>
> > +[1] See pv-iommu.md
> ... it's not clear what this actually refers to. There's no such doc in our 
> tree,
> afaics.
>
> Jan
Went through the RFC. Please can you share whats the use case you are 
trying to solve here.
Anshul

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