Re: [PATCH vhost next 09/10] vdpa/mlx5: Add shared memory registration code

From: Eli Cohen
Date: Thu Jul 16 2020 - 04:28:50 EST


On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 04:13:21PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>
> On 2020/7/16 äå3:23, Eli Cohen wrote:
> >Add code to support registering guest's memory region for the device.
>
>
> It would be better to use "userspace" memory here since vhost-vDPA
> could be used by e.g dpdk application on the host in the future.
>

How about replaciing "guest's memory" with "address space". It is more
general and aligns with the with the fact that virio driver can run in
the guest's kernel.