Re: [RFC] virtio: support VIRTIO_F_IO_BARRIER

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 10:59:55AM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> This patch introduces the support for VIRTIO_F_IO_BARRIER.
> When this feature is negotiated, driver will use the barriers
> suitable for hardware devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@xxxxxxxxx>

I should have thought of this earlier, but why is a new feature bit
necessary?  If a hardware virtio device is in use, then the device
should already negotiate VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM (i.e. use DMA APIs and
IOMMU callbacks).

Does disabling weak_barriers when VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM is set solve
the problem?

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