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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <olekstysh@gmail.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] arm/xen: Assign xen-virtio DMA ops for virtio devices in Xen guests
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 23:07:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YlpdBHKT1bYzZe2e@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2204151305050.915916@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop>

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 03:02:45PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> This makes sense overall. Considering that the swiotlb-xen case and the
> virtio case are mutually exclusive, I would write it like this:

Curious question:  Why can't the same grant scheme also be used for
non-virtio devices?  I really hate having virtio hooks in the arch
dma code.  Why can't Xen just say in DT/ACPI that grants can be used
for a given device?

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-16  6:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-14 19:19 [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio: Solution to restrict memory access under Xen using xen-virtio DMA ops layer Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2022-04-14 19:19 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] xen/grants: support allocating consecutive grants Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2022-04-14 19:19 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] virtio: add option to restrict memory access under Xen Oleksandr Tyshchenko
     [not found]   ` <5A795507-715D-494B-B56B-B12E5BE348A4@zytor.com>
2022-04-15 15:20     ` Oleksandr
     [not found]   ` <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2204151235440.915916@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop>
2022-04-17 17:02     ` Oleksandr
2022-04-18 19:11       ` Stefano Stabellini
2022-04-19  6:21         ` Juergen Gross
2022-04-19  6:37           ` Oleksandr
2022-04-14 19:19 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] dt-bindings: xen: Add xen, dev-domid property description for xen-virtio layer Oleksandr Tyshchenko
     [not found]   ` <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2204151300130.915916@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop>
2022-04-17 17:24     ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] dt-bindings: xen: Add xen,dev-domid " Oleksandr
2022-04-14 19:19 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] virtio: Various updates to xen-virtio DMA ops layer Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2022-04-15 22:02   ` Stefano Stabellini
2022-04-17 18:21     ` Oleksandr
2022-04-18 19:11       ` Stefano Stabellini
2022-04-19  6:58         ` Juergen Gross
2022-04-19  7:07           ` Oleksandr
2022-04-16  6:05   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-17 18:39     ` Oleksandr
2022-04-14 19:19 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] arm/xen: Introduce xen_setup_dma_ops() Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2022-04-15 22:02   ` Stefano Stabellini
2022-04-17 18:43     ` Oleksandr
2022-04-14 19:19 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] arm/xen: Assign xen-virtio DMA ops for virtio devices in Xen guests Oleksandr Tyshchenko
2022-04-15 22:02   ` Stefano Stabellini
2022-04-16  6:07     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-04-17 21:05       ` Oleksandr
2022-04-18 19:11         ` Stefano Stabellini
2022-04-19 12:17           ` Oleksandr
2022-04-19 14:48             ` Juergen Gross
2022-04-19 17:11               ` Oleksandr
2022-04-20  0:23                 ` Stefano Stabellini
2022-04-20  9:00                   ` Oleksandr
2022-04-20 22:49                     ` Stefano Stabellini
2022-04-17 19:20     ` Oleksandr
2022-04-15  7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] virtio: Solution to restrict memory access under Xen using xen-virtio DMA ops layer Christoph Hellwig
2022-04-15 10:04   ` Oleksandr
2022-04-15  8:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-04-15 15:29   ` Oleksandr

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