linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Untrusted device support for virtio

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Message-ID: <20210422063128.GB4176641@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 22 Apr 2021 07:31:28 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc:     mst@...hat.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xieyongji@...edance.com,
        stefanha@...hat.com, file@...t.tu-berlin.de, ashish.kalra@....com,
        martin.radev@...ec.fraunhofer.de, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Untrusted device support for virtio

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:21:10AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> The behaivor for non DMA API is kept for minimizing the performance
> impact.

NAK.  Everyone should be using the DMA API in a modern world.  So
treating the DMA API path worse than the broken legacy path does not
make any sense whatsoever.