Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 5/9] virtio_ring: Support DMA APIs

2016-02-03 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Feb 3, 2016 5:52 AM, "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:46:36PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > virtio_ring currently sends the device (usually a hypervisor) > > physical addresses of its I/O buffers. This is okay when DMA > > addresses and physical addresses are the

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 5/9] virtio_ring: Support DMA APIs

2016-02-03 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:46:36PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > virtio_ring currently sends the device (usually a hypervisor) > physical addresses of its I/O buffers. This is okay when DMA > addresses and physical addresses are the same thing, but this isn't > always the case. For example, thi