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Message-ID: <1711611643.583144-3-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:40:43 +0800
From: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Cc: virtualization@...ts.linux.dev,
 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH vhost v6 06/10] virtio_ring: no store dma info when unmap is not needed

On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:06:33 +0800, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 7:14 PM Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
> >
> > As discussed:
> > http://lore.kernel.org/all/CACGkMEug-=C+VQhkMYSgUKMC==04m7-uem_yC21bgGkKZh845w@mail.gmail.com
> >
> > When the vq is premapped mode, the driver manages the dma
> > info is a good way.
> >
> > So this commit make the virtio core not to store the dma
> > info and release the memory which is used to store the dma
> > info.
> >
> > If the use_dma_api is false, the memory is also not allocated.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >  1 file changed, 97 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> > index 1f7c96543d58..08e4f6e1d722 100644
> > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
> > @@ -69,23 +69,26 @@
> >
> >  struct vring_desc_state_split {
> >         void *data;                     /* Data for callback. */
> > -       struct vring_desc_extra *indir_desc;    /* Indirect descriptor, if any. */
> > +       struct vring_desc_dma *indir_desc;      /* Indirect descriptor, if any. */
> >  };
> >
> >  struct vring_desc_state_packed {
> >         void *data;                     /* Data for callback. */
> > -       struct vring_desc_extra *indir_desc; /* Indirect descriptor, if any. */
> > +       struct vring_desc_dma *indir_desc; /* Indirect descriptor, if any. */
> >         u16 num;                        /* Descriptor list length. */
> >         u16 last;                       /* The last desc state in a list. */
> >  };
> >
> >  struct vring_desc_extra {
> > -       dma_addr_t addr;                /* Descriptor DMA addr. */
> > -       u32 len;                        /* Descriptor length. */
> >         u16 flags;                      /* Descriptor flags. */
> >         u16 next;                       /* The next desc state in a list. */
> >  };
> >
> > +struct vring_desc_dma {
> > +       dma_addr_t addr;                /* Descriptor DMA addr. */
> > +       u32 len;                        /* Descriptor length. */
>
> This seems to be odd, flag should be part of dma info.

flags contains F_NEXT, that is used by detach when no dma info.

>
> To reduce the changeset, I would split out next.

Do you mean split this patch set?

Thanks



>
> Thank
>