From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Yongji Xie <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Stefano Garzarella" <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
"Parav Pandit" <parav@nvidia.com>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
"Christian Brauner" <christian.brauner@canonical.com>,
"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
"Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org>,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, "Jens Axboe" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
bcrl@kvack.org, "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>,
"Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: Re: [PATCH v6 10/10] Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:17:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHhLCyF/2VYzrL3g@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACycT3tRN1n_PJm1mu3=s1dK941Pac15cpaysqZZKLR6xKaXSg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 04:33:27PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 3:19 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 01:38:37PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:15 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:05:19PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> > It's not obvious to me that there is a fundamental difference between
> > the two approaches in terms of performance.
> >
> > > On the other
> > > hand, we can handle the virtqueue in a unified way for both vhost-vdpa
> > > case and virtio-vdpa case. Otherwise, userspace daemon needs to know
> > > which iova ranges need to be accessed with pread(2)/pwrite(2). And in
> > > the future, we might be able to avoid bouncing in some cases.
> >
> > Ah, I see. So bounce buffers are not used for vhost-vdpa?
> >
>
> Yes.
Okay, in that case I understand why mmap is used and it's nice to keep
virtio-vpda and vhost-vdpa unified. Thanks!
Stefan
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-31 8:05 [PATCH v6 00/10] Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace Xie Yongji
2021-03-31 8:05 ` [PATCH v6 01/10] file: Export receive_fd() to modules Xie Yongji
2021-03-31 9:15 ` Christian Brauner
2021-03-31 9:26 ` Dan Carpenter
2021-03-31 9:28 ` Christian Brauner
2021-03-31 11:32 ` Yongji Xie
2021-03-31 12:23 ` Christian Brauner
2021-03-31 13:59 ` Yongji Xie
2021-03-31 14:07 ` Christian Brauner
2021-03-31 14:37 ` Yongji Xie
2021-03-31 8:05 ` [PATCH v6 02/10] eventfd: Increase the recursion depth of eventfd_signal() Xie Yongji
2021-03-31 8:05 ` [PATCH v6 03/10] vhost-vdpa: protect concurrent access to vhost device iotlb Xie Yongji
2021-04-09 16:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-04-11 5:36 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-11 20:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-04-12 2:29 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-12 9:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-03-31 8:05 ` [PATCH v6 04/10] vhost-iotlb: Add an opaque pointer for vhost IOTLB Xie Yongji
2021-03-31 8:05 ` [PATCH v6 05/10] vdpa: Add an opaque pointer for vdpa_config_ops.dma_map() Xie Yongji
2021-03-31 8:05 ` [PATCH v6 06/10] vdpa: factor out vhost_vdpa_pa_map() and vhost_vdpa_pa_unmap() Xie Yongji
2021-03-31 8:05 ` [PATCH v6 07/10] vdpa: Support transferring virtual addressing during DMA mapping Xie Yongji
2021-04-08 2:36 ` Jason Wang
2021-03-31 8:05 ` [PATCH v6 08/10] vduse: Implement an MMU-based IOMMU driver Xie Yongji
2021-04-08 3:25 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-08 5:27 ` Yongji Xie
2021-03-31 8:05 ` [PATCH v6 09/10] vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace Xie Yongji
2021-04-08 6:57 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-08 9:36 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-09 5:36 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-09 8:02 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-12 7:16 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-12 8:02 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-12 9:37 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-12 9:59 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-13 3:35 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-13 4:28 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-14 8:18 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-16 3:24 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-16 8:43 ` Yongji Xie
2021-03-31 8:05 ` [PATCH v6 10/10] Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE Xie Yongji
2021-04-08 7:18 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-08 8:09 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-14 14:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-04-15 5:38 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-15 7:19 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-04-15 8:33 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-15 14:17 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2021-04-15 8:36 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-15 9:04 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-15 11:17 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-16 2:20 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-16 2:58 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-16 3:02 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-16 3:18 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-15 14:38 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-04-16 2:23 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-16 3:19 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-16 5:39 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-16 3:13 ` Yongji Xie
2021-04-14 7:34 ` [PATCH v6 00/10] Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-04-14 7:49 ` Jason Wang
2021-04-14 7:54 ` Yongji Xie
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