Re: RFC: Device isolation groups

2012-03-08 Thread David Gibson
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:30:55PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 12:24 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 01:08:39PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: [snip] > Any update to this series? It would be great if we could map out the > functionality to the point

Re: RFC: Device isolation groups

2012-02-29 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 12:24 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 01:08:39PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 15:46 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > > This patch series introduces a new infrastructure to the driver core > > > for representing "device isolation gr

Re: RFC: Device isolation groups

2012-02-01 Thread David Gibson
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 01:08:39PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 15:46 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > This patch series introduces a new infrastructure to the driver core > > for representing "device isolation groups". That is, groups of > > devices which can be "isolated"

Re: RFC: Device isolation groups

2012-02-01 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 15:46 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > This patch series introduces a new infrastructure to the driver core > for representing "device isolation groups". That is, groups of > devices which can be "isolated" in such a way that the rest of the > system can be protected from them, e

RFC: Device isolation groups

2012-01-31 Thread David Gibson
This patch series introduces a new infrastructure to the driver core for representing "device isolation groups". That is, groups of devices which can be "isolated" in such a way that the rest of the system can be protected from them, even in the presence of userspace or a guest OS directly driving