发明名称 |
Memory Overcommit by Using an Emulated IOMMU in a Computer System without a Host IOMMU |
摘要 |
A method and system for managing direct memory access (DMA) in a computer system without a host input/output memory management unit (IOMMU). The computer system hosts virtual machines and allows memory overcommit. The computer receives, from a guest operating system that runs on a virtual machine, a request for mapping a guest address to a bus address. The computer translates the guest address to a host address and pins a memory page containing the host address to keep the memory page in host memory. The host address is then returned to the guest operating system to allow a device to use the host address as the bus address for direct memory access (DMA) to a buffer managed by the guest operating system. |
申请公布号 |
US2012072906(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2012.03.22 |
申请号 |
US20100883576 |
申请日期 |
2010.09.16 |
申请人 |
TSIRKIN MICHAEL;WRIGHT CHRISTOPHER M.;RED HAT ISRAEL, LTD. |
发明人 |
TSIRKIN MICHAEL;WRIGHT CHRISTOPHER M. |
分类号 |
G06F12/08;G06F9/455 |
主分类号 |
G06F12/08 |
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