From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC 0/4] Virtio uses DMA API for all devices Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 00:25:06 -0700 Message-ID: <20180805072506.GA23288@infradead.org> References: <20180802182959-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <82ccef6ec3d95ee43f3990a4a2d0aea87eb45e89.camel@kernel.crashing.org> <20180802200646-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180802225738-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180803070507.GA1344@infradead.org> <20180803221634-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180804081500.GA1455@infradead.org> <20180805030326-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180805030326-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: robh@kernel.org, srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Will Deacon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxram@us.ibm.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Christoph Hellwig , paulus@samba.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, joe@perches.com, robin.murphy@arm.com, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, elfring@users.sourceforge.net, haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Anshuman Khandual List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 03:09:55AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > So in this case however I'm not sure what exactly do we want to add. It > seems that from point of view of the device, there is nothing special - > it just gets a PA and writes there. It also seems that guest does not > need to get any info from the device either. Instead guest itself needs > device to DMA into specific addresses, for its own reasons. > > It seems that the fact that within guest it's implemented using a bounce > buffer and that it's easiest to do by switching virtio to use the DMA API > isn't something virtio spec concerns itself with. And that is exactly what we added bus_dma_mask for - the case where the device itself has not limitation (or a bigger limitation), but the platform limits the accessible dma ranges. One typical case is a PCIe root port that is only connected to the CPU through an interconnect that is limited to 32 address bits for example.