Re: [PATCH vhost v11 05/10] virtio_ring: introduce virtqueue_dma_dev()

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On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 11:22:42PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 10:51:59AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 04:15:16AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 11:42:32AM +0800, Xuan Zhuo wrote:
> > > > Added virtqueue_dma_dev() to get DMA device for virtio. Then the
> > > > caller can do dma operation in advance. The purpose is to keep memory
> > > > mapped across multiple add/get buf operations.
> > > 
> > > This is just poking holes into the abstraction..
> > 
> > More specifically?
> 
> Because now you expose a device that can't be used for the non-dma
> mapping case and shoud be hidden.


Ah, ok.
Well I think we can add wrappers like virtio_dma_sync and so on.
There are NOP for non-dma so passing the dma device is harmless.

-- 
MST

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