> From: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2021 3:00 AM
> 
> Jason,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 10 2021 at 08:39, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 07:29:01AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >> >   5) It's not possible for the kernel to reliably detect whether it is
> >> >      running on bare metal or not. Yes we talked about heuristics, but
> >> >      that's something I really want to avoid.
> >>
> >> How would the hypercall mechanism avoid such heuristics?
> >
> > It is clever, we don't have an vIOMMU that supplies vIR today, so by
> > definition all guests are excluded and only bare metal works.
> 
> Dammit. Now you spilled the beans. :)
> 

Unfortunately we do have that today. Qemu supports IR for
both AMD and Intel vIOMMU.

Thanks
Kevin
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