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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vhost: introduce vDPA based backend
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On 2/6/2020 11:11 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
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> On 2020/2/5 下午9:14, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 08:56:48AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 03:50:14PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>>> Would it be better for the map/umnap logic to happen inside each
>>>>> device ?
>>>>> Devices that needs the IOMMU will call iommu APIs from inside the
>>>>> driver callback.
>>>> Technically, this can work. But if it can be done by vhost-vpda it
>>>> will make
>>>> the vDPA driver more compact and easier to be implemented.
>>> Generally speaking, in the kernel, it is normal to not hoist code of
>>> out drivers into subsystems until 2-3 drivers are duplicating that
>>> code. It helps ensure the right design is used
>>>
>>> Jason
>> That's up to the sybsystem maintainer really, as there's also some
>> intuition involved in guessing a specific API is widely useful.
>> In-kernel APIs are flexible, if we find something isn't needed we just
>> drop it.
>>
>
> If I understand correctly. At least Intel (Ling Shan) and Brodcom
> (Rob) doesn't want to deal with DMA stuffs in their driver.
>
> Anyway since the DMA bus operations is optional, driver may still
> choose to do DMA by itself if they want even if it requires platform
> IOMMU to work.
>
> Thanks
>
Many Thanks if this could be done. The parent device has DMA
capabilities and dma ops implemented, we hope can make use of it, as
discussed in the vdpa thread.

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