Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] virtio_ring: Introduce DMA pre-handler

[Jason Wang]

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 1:47 PM Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently, DMA operations of virtio devices' data buffer are encapsulated
> within the underlying virtqueue implementation. DMA map/unmap operations
> are performed for each data buffer attached to/detached from the virtqueue,
> which is transparent and invisible to the higher-level virtio device
> drivers. This encapsulation makes it not viable for device drivers to
> introduce certain mechanisms, such as page pool, that require explicit
> management of DMA map/unmap. Therefore, by inserting a pre-handler before
> the generic DMA map/unmap operations, virtio device drivers have the
> opportunity to participate in DMA operations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@xxxxxxxxx>

So Xuan is doing AF_XDP for the virtio-net that allows the DMA to be
mapped at least by the virtio-net.

It looks like a way to allow virtio-net to map and unmap the DMA
buffer by itself, but this patch goes into another way which seems to
query the address from the virtio core.

Personally, I think map and sync by the virtio-net driver seems clean.
But we can see.

Thanks