Re: [PATCH] vhost: introduce vDPA based backend

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On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 02:46:16PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 2020/2/4 下午2:01, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 11:30:11AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > 5) generate diffs of memory table and using IOMMU API to setup the dma
> > > mapping in this method
> > Frankly I think that's a bunch of work. Why not a MAP/UNMAP interface?
> > 
> 
> Sure, so that basically VHOST_IOTLB_UPDATE/INVALIDATE I think?

Do you mean we let userspace to only use VHOST_IOTLB_UPDATE/INVALIDATE
to do the DMA mapping in vhost-vdpa case? When vIOMMU isn't available,
userspace will set msg->iova to GPA, otherwise userspace will set
msg->iova to GIOVA, and vhost-vdpa module will get HPA from msg->uaddr?

Thanks,
Tiwei

> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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