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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:59:31 +0300 From: Eli Cohen <elic@...dia.com> To: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> CC: <mst@...hat.com>, <lulu@...hat.com>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <rob.miller@...adcom.com>, <lingshan.zhu@...el.com>, <eperezma@...hat.com>, <hanand@...inx.com>, <mhabets@...arflare.com>, <amorenoz@...hat.com>, <maxime.coquelin@...hat.com>, <stefanha@...hat.com>, <sgarzare@...hat.com> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 10/24] vdpa: introduce config operations for associating ASID to a virtqueue group On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 11:56:45AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2020/10/1 下午9:29, Eli Cohen wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 11:21:11AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > This patch introduces a new bus operation to allow the vDPA bus driver > > > to associate an ASID to a virtqueue group. > > > > > So in case of virtio_net, I would expect that all the data virtqueues > > will be associated with the same address space identifier. > > > Right. > > I will add the codes to do this in the next version. It should be more > explicit than have this assumption by default. > > > > Moreover, > > this assignment should be provided before the set_map call that provides > > the iotlb for the address space, correct? > > > I think it's better not have this limitation, note that set_map() now takes > a asid argument. > > So for hardware if the associated as is changed, the driver needs to program > the hardware to switch to the new mapping. > > Does this work for mlx5? > So in theory we can have several asid's (for different virtqueues), each one should be followed by a specific set_map call. If this is so, how do I know if I met all the conditions run my driver? Maybe we need another callback to let the driver know it should not expect more set_maps().
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