Re: [PATCH v2] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware backend

[Jason Wang]

On 2019/10/24 äå6:42, Jason Wang wrote:
> Yes.
>
>
> > Â And we should try to avoid
> > putting ctrl vq and Rx/Tx vqs in the same DMA space to prevent
> > guests having the chance to bypass the host (e.g. QEMU) to
> > setup the backend accelerator directly.
>
>
> That's really good point. So when "vhost" type is created, parent 
> should assume addr of ctrl_vq is hva.
>
> Thanks


This works for vhost but not virtio since there's no way for virtio 
kernel driver to differ ctrl_vq with the rest when doing DMA map. One 
possible solution is to provide DMA domain isolation between virtqueues. 
Then ctrl vq can use its dedicated DMA domain for the work.

Anyway, this could be done in the future. We can have a version first 
that doesn't support ctrl_vq.

Thanks