Re: [PATCH vhost v4 00/10] virtio: drivers maintain dma info for premapped vq

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On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 2:56 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 11:35:47AM +0800, Xuan Zhuo wrote:
> > As discussed:
> >
> > http://lore.kernel.org/all/CACGkMEvq0No8QGC46U4mGsMtuD44fD_cfLcPaVmJ3rHYqRZxYg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > If the virtio is premapped mode, the driver should manage the dma info by self.
> > So the virtio core should not store the dma info. We can release the memory used
> > to store the dma info.
> >
> > For virtio-net xmit queue, if the virtio-net maintains the dma info,
> > the virtio-net must allocate too much memory(19 * queue_size for per-queue), so
> > we do not plan to make the virtio-net to maintain the dma info by default. The
> > virtio-net xmit queue only maintain the dma info when premapped mode is enable
> > (such as AF_XDP is enable).
>
> This landed when merge window was open already so I'm deferring this
> to the next merge window, just to be safe. Jason can you review please?

Will do.

Thanks






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