RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] IOMMU: Handle sibling deviceassignme

To:	"Wei Wang2" <wei.wang2@xxxxxxx>
Subject:	RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] IOMMU: Handle sibling deviceassignmentcorrectly (re-send)
From:	"Ian Pratt" <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Thu, 29 May 2008 10:19:05 +0100
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> IMO, it is more reasonable to just a assigned a single device behind a
> bridge than to give target guest the whole group? Other sibling
devices
> in this group still get chance to be assigned to the same target
domain
> dynamically. If the target domain is not the same, assignment will be
> rejected. To do this , we might have a global structure to indicate
the
> owner of each device group.

Yes, that's the best behaviour.

Thanks,
Ian

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