netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] xsk: introduce xsk_dma

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Date:   Mon, 17 Apr 2023 11:57:53 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>,
        Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
        Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] xsk: introduce xsk_dma_ops

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 11:56:10 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > May misunderstand, here the "dma_ops" is not the "dma_ops" of DMA API.
> > 
> > I mean the callbacks for xsk to do dma.
> > 
> > Maybe, I should rename it in the next version.  
> 
> Would you mind explaining this a bit more to folks like me who are not
> familiar with VirtIO?  DMA API is supposed to hide the DMA mapping
> details from the stack, why is it not sufficient here.

Umm.. also it'd help to post the user of the API in the same series.
I only see the XSK changes, maybe if the virtio changes were in 
the same series I could answer my own question.