Re: [PATCH v3 16/23] Documentation: userspace-api: iommufd: Update vQUEUE
From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Thu May 01 2025 - 23:50:30 EST
On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 04:01:22PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> +- IOMMUFD_OBJ_VQUEUE, representing a hardware accelerated virtual queue, as a
> + subset of IOMMU's virtualization features, for the IOMMU HW to directly read
> + or write the virtual queue memory owned by a guest OS. This HW-acceleration
> + allows VM to work with the IOMMU HW directly without a VM Exit, i.e. reducing
> + overhead from the hypercalls. Along with this vQUEUE object, iommufd provides
> + user space an mmap interface for VMM to mmap a physical MMIO region from the
> + host physical address space to the guest physical address space, allowing the
> + guest OS to control the allocated vQUEUE HW. Thus, when allocating a vQUEUE,
> + the VMM must request a pair of VMA info (vm_pgoff/size) for an mmap syscall.
> + The length argument of an mmap syscall can be smaller than the given size for
> + a partial mmap, but the addr argument of the mmap syscall should never offset
> + from the returned vm_pgoff, which implies that an mmap will always start from
Did you mean never be offset from returned vm_pgoff?
> + the beginning of the physical MMIO region.
> +
Confused...
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