netdev - Re: [PATCH] vhost: introduce vDPA based backend

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Date:   Wed, 5 Feb 2020 11:11:08 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@...el.com>
Cc:     mst@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
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        maxime.coquelin@...hat.com, lingshan.zhu@...el.com,
        dan.daly@...el.com, cunming.liang@...el.com, zhihong.wang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost: introduce vDPA based backend


On 2020/2/5 上午10:02, Tiwei Bie wrote:
>> Before trying to do this it looks to me we need the following during the
>> probe
>>
>> 1) if set_map() is not supported by the vDPA device probe the IOMMU that is
>> supported by the vDPA device
>> 2) allocate IOMMU domain
>>
>> And then:
>>
>> 3) pin pages through GUP and do proper accounting
>> 4) store GPA->HPA mapping in the umem
>> 5) generate diffs of memory table and using IOMMU API to setup the dma
>> mapping in this method
>>
>> For 1), I'm not sure parent is sufficient for to doing this or need to
>> introduce new API like iommu_device in mdev.
> Agree. We may also need to introduce something like
> the iommu_device.
>

Right, this is what I plan to do in next version.

Thanks