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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 08/14] AMD/IOMMU: introduce 128-bit IRTE non-guest-APIC IRTE format


  • To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
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  • Thread-topic: Re:[PATCH v3 08/14] AMD/IOMMU: introduce 128-bit IRTE non-guest-APIC IRTE format

On 23.07.2019 10:13, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 22.07.2019 17:43, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> How would your argument change if the IOMMU was a real CPU running real
>> x86 code?  Its interface to the rest of the system would be identical,
>> and in that case, it would obviously need an smp_{r,w}mb() pair for
>> correctness reasons.  This is why smp_wmb() is the only appropriate
>> construct to use.
> 
> It wouldn't change at all. What matters (as per above) is the
> understanding the OS has, i.e. what is being surfaced to it as CPU.

Oh, btw - I've got curious whether we could use Linux sources for
arbitration. What I found though is that they don't use any barrier
at all - see modify_irte_ga().

Jan
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