Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] KVM: PPC: Add support for multiple-TCE hcalls

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:37:05 +1000

On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 17:55 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> David:
> ===
> So, in the case of MULTITCE, that's not quite right.  PR KVM can
> emulate a PAPR system on a BookE machine, and there's no reason not to
> allow TCE acceleration as well.  We can't make it dependent on PAPR
> mode being selected, because that's enabled per-vcpu, whereas these
> capabilities are queried on the VM before the vcpus are created.
> ===
> 
> Wrong?

The capability just tells qemu the kernel supports it, it doesn't have
to depend on PAPR mode, qemu can sort things out no ?

Cheers,
Ben.