Re: [PATCH] vhost: drop vring dependency on iotlb

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 10:28:28PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> 
> On 2020/4/2 äå10:12, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > vringh can now be built without IOTLB.
> > Select IOTLB directly where it's used.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > This is on top of my previous patch (in vhost tree now).
> > 
> >   drivers/vdpa/Kconfig  | 1 +
> >   drivers/vhost/Kconfig | 1 -
> >   2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/Kconfig b/drivers/vdpa/Kconfig
> > index 7db1460104b7..08b615f2da39 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vdpa/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/vdpa/Kconfig
> > @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ config VDPA_SIM
> >   	depends on RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU
> >   	select VDPA
> >   	select VHOST_RING
> > +	select VHOST_IOTLB
> >   	default n
> >   	help
> >   	  vDPA networking device simulator which loop TX traffic back
> > diff --git a/drivers/vhost/Kconfig b/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
> > index 21feea0d69c9..bdd270fede26 100644
> > --- a/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
> > @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ config VHOST_IOTLB
> >   config VHOST_RING
> >   	tristate
> > -	select VHOST_IOTLB
> >   	help
> >   	  This option is selected by any driver which needs to access
> >   	  the host side of a virtio ring.
> 
> 
> Do we need to mention driver need to select VHOST_IOTLB by itself here?
> 
> Thanks
> 

OK but I guess it's best to do it near where VHOST_IOTLB is defined.
Like this?


diff --git a/drivers/vhost/Kconfig b/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
index bdd270fede26..ce51126f51e7 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ config VHOST_IOTLB
 	tristate
 	help
 	  Generic IOTLB implementation for vhost and vringh.
+	  This option is selected by any driver which needs to support
+	  an IOMMU in software.
 
 config VHOST_RING
 	tristate