Re: [PATCH vhost v11 10/10] virtio_net: merge dma operation for one page

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On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 2:23 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> can you please resend your reply with proper quoting?  I had to give
> up after multiple pages of scrolling without finding anything that
> you added to the full quote.

I guess it's this part?

> > > You should also test without iommu but with swiotlb=force
> >
> >
> > For swiotlb, merge DMA has no benefit, because we still need to copy data from
> > swiotlb buffer to the origin buffer.
> > The benefit of the merge DMA is to reduce the operate to the iommu device.
> >
> > I did some test for this. The result is same.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> Did you actually check that it works though?
> Looks like with swiotlb you need to synch to trigger a copy
> before unmap, and I don't see where it's done in the current
> patch.

And this is needed for XDP_REDIRECT as well.

Thanks






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