netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] virtio_ring: Introduce DMA pre-handler

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Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 14:57:26 +0800
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@...il.com>
Cc: mst@...hat.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, 
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com, kuba@...nel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, 
	davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com, alexander.duyck@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] virtio_ring: Introduce DMA pre-handler

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 1:47 PM Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, DMA operations of virtio devices' data buffer are encapsulated
> within the underlying virtqueue implementation. DMA map/unmap operations
> are performed for each data buffer attached to/detached from the virtqueue,
> which is transparent and invisible to the higher-level virtio device
> drivers. This encapsulation makes it not viable for device drivers to
> introduce certain mechanisms, such as page pool, that require explicit
> management of DMA map/unmap. Therefore, by inserting a pre-handler before
> the generic DMA map/unmap operations, virtio device drivers have the
> opportunity to participate in DMA operations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@...il.com>

So Xuan is doing AF_XDP for the virtio-net that allows the DMA to be
mapped at least by the virtio-net.

It looks like a way to allow virtio-net to map and unmap the DMA
buffer by itself, but this patch goes into another way which seems to
query the address from the virtio core.

Personally, I think map and sync by the virtio-net driver seems clean.
But we can see.

Thanks