Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU commit 04bf2526ce breaks use of xen-mapcache

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

> > Thanks---however, after re-reading xen-mapcache.c, dma needs to be false
> > for unlocked mappings.
> 
> If there is a DMA operation already in progress, it means that we'll
> already have a locked mapping for it.

Yes, I only wanted to say that qemu_ram_ptr_length should pass dma=false
when called by address_space_*_continue (i.e. with locked=false).

Paolo

> When address_space_write_continue is called, which in turn would call
> qemu_map_ram_ptr, or qemu_ram_ptr_length(unlocked), if the start and
> size of the requested mapping matches the one of the previously created
> locked mapping, then a pointer to the locked mapping will be returned.
> 
> If they don't match, a new unlocked mapping will be created and a
> pointer to it will be returned. (Arguably the algorithm could be
> improved so that a new mapping is not created if the address and size
> are contained within the locked mapping. This is a missing optimization
> today.)
> 
> It doesn't matter if a new unlocked mapping is created, or if the locked
> mapping is returned, because the pointer returned by
> qemu_ram_ptr_length(unlocked) is only used to do the memcpy, and never
> again. So I don't think this is a problem.
>