On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 12:23:49PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all:
> > > >
> > > > Virtio used to be coupled with DMA API. This works fine for the device
> > > > that do real DMA but not the others. For example, VDUSE nees to craft
> > > > with DMA API in order to let the virtio-vdpa driver to work.
> > > >
> > > > This series tries to solve this issue by introducing the mapping API
> > > > in the virtio core. So transport like vDPA can implement their own
> > > > mapping logic without the need to hack with DMA API. The mapping API
> > > > are abstracted with a new map operations in order to be re-used by
> > > > transprot or device. So device like VDUSE can implement its own
> > > > mapping loigc.
> > > >
> > > > For device that uses DMA (for example PCI device), the virtio core
> > > > will still call DMA API directly without the need of implementing map
> > > > ops per device/transport.
> > > >
> > > > Please review.
> > > >
> > > > Changes since V2:
> > > >
> > > > - Drop VDUSE dependenct for HAS_DMA and ARCH_HAS_DMA_OPS
> > >
> > > I just realized V2 has been merged. So I will post an independent
> > > patch to do this on top.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Dropped for now. Posted a comment though. does v3 fix the build failure
> > in linux-next?
> >
>
> I didn't find the report, maybe you can give me a pointer?
>
> Thanks

Just saw that. Let me fix it.

Thanks


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