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Message-ID: <ff4497cc-741a-113c-c6eb-dd5966716863@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 9 Dec 2021 19:17:08 +0800
From:   Tianyu Lan <ltykernel@...il.com>
To:     Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>, KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 4/5] scsi: storvsc: Add Isolation VM support for
 storvsc driver



On 12/9/2021 4:00 PM, Long Li wrote:
>> @@ -1848,21 +1851,22 @@ static int storvsc_queuecommand(struct Scsi_Host
>> *host, struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd)
>>   		payload->range.len = length;
>>   		payload->range.offset = offset_in_hvpg;
>>
>> +		sg_count = scsi_dma_map(scmnd);
>> +		if (sg_count < 0)
>> +			return SCSI_MLQUEUE_DEVICE_BUSY;
> Hi Tianyu,
> 
> This patch (and this patch series) unconditionally adds code for dealing with DMA addresses for all VMs, including non-isolation VMs.
> 
> Does this add performance penalty for VMs that don't require isolation?
> 

Hi Long:
	scsi_dma_map() in the traditional VM just save sg->offset to
sg->dma_address and no data copy because swiotlb bounce buffer code
doesn't work. The data copy only takes place in the Isolation VM and
swiotlb_force is set. So there is no additional overhead in the 
traditional VM.

Thanks.

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