On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 1:46 AM Andrey Zhadchenko <andrey.zhadchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi! > > Recently I sent vhost-blk patchset and Stefano suggested to instead join > efforts on developing vdpa-blk. > I played with it a bit and looks like vdpa itself pins the whole guest > memory. Is there a way to control it or reduce pinned amount to the > device pages? > Looks like even vdpa-sim requires all memory to be pinned [1]. Pinning > this much will surely impact guest density. It depends on the parent. When allocating the vDPA device, the parent can clams it supports virtual address then pinning is avoided: /** * __vdpa_alloc_device - allocate and initilaize a vDPA device * This allows driver to some prepartion after device is * initialized but before registered. ... * @use_va: indicate whether virtual address must be used by this device */ The only user so far is VDUSE which is a software parent in the userspace with a customized swiotlb for kernel drivers. Simulator came before this feature so we stick to the pinning method, technically we can switch to use the va mode, but it might have some performance impact (mostly the copy_from|to_user()). This option might be useful for hardware parent if PRI or device page fault is supported in the future. Thanks > > Kind regards, > Andrey > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868535 > _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
