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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] IOMMU: Handle sibling deviceassignmentcorrec

To: "Wei Wang2" <wei.wang2@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] IOMMU: Handle sibling deviceassignmentcorrectly (re-send)
From: "Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:19:05 +0100
Cc: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] IOMMU: Handle sibling deviceassignmentcorrectly (re-send)
> IMO, it is more reasonable to just a assigned a single device behind a
> bridge than to give target guest the whole group? Other sibling
devices
> in this group still get chance to be assigned to the same target
domain
> dynamically. If the target domain is not the same, assignment will be
> rejected. To do this , we might have a global structure to indicate
the
> owner of each device group.

Yes, that's the best behaviour.

Thanks,
Ian

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