Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] virtio DMA API core stuff

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Oct 28 2015 - 09:38:12 EST


On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 13:23 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 05:36:53PM +0900, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 16:40 +0900, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > > We have discussed that at kernel summit. I will try to implement
> > > a dummy dma_ops for
> > > s390 that does 1:1 mapping and Ben will look into doing some
> > > quirk to handle "old"
> > > code in addition to also make it possible to mark devices as
> > > iommu bypass (IIRC,
> > > via device tree, Ben?)
> >
> > Something like that yes. I'll look into it when I'm back home.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben.
>
> OK so I guess that means we should prefer a transport-specific
> interface in virtio-pci then.

Why?

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