Alex Williamson

Alex Williamson

Red Hat

Biography

Alex is a Principal Software Engineer working for Red Hat from his home in Fort Collins, Colorado. Alex is the maintainer of the VFIO userspace driver interface in the Linux kernel and VFIO PCI device assignment driver in QEMU and is a frequent contributor to the IOMMU, PCI, and KVM subsystems.

Sessions for this user

* Handling device identity mappings in the IOMMU API

Some devices request identity mapping of ranges via firmware interfaces, which seems contrary to device use via the IOMMU API. Can we support these conflicting requirements? (slides)
IOMMU and VFIO
Alex Williamson