Re: [PATCH] vhost: introduce vDPA based backend

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Wed Feb 05 2020 - 00:36:52 EST


On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 11:12:21AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
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> On 2020/2/5 äå10:05, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 02:46:16PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > On 2020/2/4 äå2:01, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 11:30:11AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > > 5) generate diffs of memory table and using IOMMU API to setup the dma
> > > > > mapping in this method
> > > > Frankly I think that's a bunch of work. Why not a MAP/UNMAP interface?
> > > >
> > > Sure, so that basically VHOST_IOTLB_UPDATE/INVALIDATE I think?
> > Do you mean we let userspace to only use VHOST_IOTLB_UPDATE/INVALIDATE
> > to do the DMA mapping in vhost-vdpa case? When vIOMMU isn't available,
> > userspace will set msg->iova to GPA, otherwise userspace will set
> > msg->iova to GIOVA, and vhost-vdpa module will get HPA from msg->uaddr?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tiwei
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> I think so. Michael, do you think this makes sense?
>
> Thanks

to make sure, could you post the suggested argument format for
these ioctls?

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> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >