Re: [PATCH] KVM: Qemu: Flush i-cache after ide-dma operation in IA64

Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kvm-ia64,org.kernel.vger.kvm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
>   
>> What about smp?
>>     
>
> fc will broadcast to the coherence domain the cache invalidation.  So it is
> SMP-ready for usual machines.
>
>   

Interesting.

>> I'm surprised the guest doesn't do this by itself?
>>     
>
> It doesn't had to do it.  The PCI transaction will automatically invalidate
> caches - but qemu doesn't emulate this (and doesn't need to do on x86).
>   

So any DMA on ia64 will flush the instruction caches?!

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