[RFC 3/3] mm: iommu: The Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager

[Daniel Walker]

On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 15:00 -0700, Zach Pfeffer wrote:


> Additionally, the current IOMMU interface does not allow users to
> associate one page table with multiple IOMMUs unless the user explicitly
> wrote a muxed device underneith the IOMMU interface. This also could be
> done, but would have to be done for every such use case. Since the
> particular topology is run-time configurable all of these use-cases and
> more can be expressed without pushing the topology into the low-level
> IOMMU driver.
> 
> The VCMM takes the long view. Its designed for a future in which the
> number of IOMMUs will go up and the ways in which these IOMMUs are
> composed will vary from system to system, and may vary at
> runtime. Already, there are ~20 different IOMMU map implementations in
> the kernel. Had the Linux kernel had the VCMM, many of those
> implementations could have leveraged the mapping and topology management
> of a VCMM, while focusing on a few key hardware specific functions (map
> this physical address, program the page table base register).

So if we include this code which "map implementations" could you
collapse into this implementations ? Generally , what currently existing
code can VCMM help to eliminate?

Daniel

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