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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>
Cc: geoff@hostfission.com, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
	"Alex Lau" <alexlau@chromium.org>,
	"Daniel Vetter" <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	"Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@chromium.org>,
	"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	"Gurchetan Singh" <gurchetansingh@chromium.org>,
	"Keiichi Watanabe" <keiichiw@chromium.org>,
	"David Stevens" <stevensd@chromium.org>,
	"Hans Verkuil" <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>,
	"Stéphane Marchesin" <marcheu@chromium.org>,
	"Dylan Reid" <dgreid@chromium.org>,
	"Tomasz Figa" <tfiga@chromium.org>,
	"Dmitry Morozov" <dmitry.morozov@opensynergy.com>,
	"Pawel Osciak" <posciak@chromium.org>,
	"Linux Media Mailing List" <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: guest / host buffer sharing ...
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:53:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191120095349.oobeosin3lujgcja@sirius.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bee3aae13f6cf69ee909aa9884926853d6123b25.camel@linux.intel.com>

  Hi,

> > > DSP FW has no access to userspace so we would need some additional
> > > API
> > > on top of DMA_BUF_SET_NAME etc to get physical hardware pages ?
> > 
> > The dma-buf api currently can share guest memory sg-lists.
> 
> Ok, IIUC buffers can either be shared using the GPU proposed APIs
> (above) or using the dma-buf API to share via userspace ? My preference
> would be to use teh more direct GPU APIs sending physical page
> addresses from Guest to device driver. I guess this is your use case
> too ?

I'm not convinced this is useful for audio ...

I basically see two modes of operation which are useful:

  (1) send audio data via virtqueue.
  (2) map host audio buffers into the guest address space.

The audio driver api (i.e. alsa) typically allows to mmap() the audio
data buffers, so it is the host audio driver which handles the
allocation.  Let the audio hardware dma from/to userspace-allocated
buffers is not possible[1], but we would need that to allow qemu (or
other vmms) use guest-allocated buffers.

cheers,
  Gerd

[1] Disclaimer: It's been a while I looked at alsa more closely, so
    there is a chance this might have changed without /me noticing.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-20  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-05 10:54 guest / host buffer sharing Gerd Hoffmann
2019-11-05 11:35 ` Geoffrey McRae
2019-11-06  6:24   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-11-06  8:36 ` David Stevens
2019-11-06 12:41   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-11-06 22:28     ` Geoffrey McRae
2019-11-07  6:48       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-11-20 12:13       ` Tomasz Figa
2019-11-20 21:41         ` Geoffrey McRae
2019-11-21  5:51           ` Tomasz Figa
2019-12-04 22:22             ` Dylan Reid
2019-12-11  5:08               ` David Stevens
2019-12-11  9:26                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-12-11 16:05                   ` [virtio-dev] " Enrico Granata
2019-12-12  6:40                   ` David Stevens
2019-12-12  9:41                     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-12-12 12:26                       ` David Stevens
2019-12-12 13:30                         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-12-13  3:21                           ` David Stevens
2019-12-16 13:47                             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-12-17 12:59                               ` David Stevens
2019-11-06  8:43 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-11-06  9:51   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-11-06 10:10     ` [virtio-dev] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-11-07 11:11       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-11-07 11:16         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-11-08  6:45           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-11-06 11:46     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-11-06 12:50       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-11-07 12:10         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-11-07 15:10           ` Frank Yang
2019-11-20 11:58             ` Tomasz Figa
2019-11-08  7:22           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-11-08  7:35             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-11-09  1:41               ` Stéphane Marchesin
2019-11-09 10:12                 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-11-09 11:16                   ` Tomasz Figa
2019-11-09 12:08                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-11-09 15:12                       ` Tomasz Figa
2019-11-18 10:20                         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-11-20 10:11                           ` Tomasz Figa
2019-11-20 12:11     ` Tomasz Figa
2019-11-11  3:04   ` David Stevens
2019-11-11 15:36     ` [virtio-dev] " Liam Girdwood
2019-11-12  0:54       ` Gurchetan Singh
2019-11-12 13:56         ` Liam Girdwood
2019-11-12 22:55           ` Gurchetan Singh
2019-11-19 15:31             ` Liam Girdwood
2019-11-20  0:42               ` Gurchetan Singh
2019-11-20  9:53               ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2019-11-25 16:46                 ` Liam Girdwood
2019-11-27  7:58                   ` Gerd Hoffmann

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