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SubjectRe: [RFC V1 1/5] swiotlb: Support allocating DMA memory from SWIOTLB
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 05:52:47AM +0000, Vishal Annapurve wrote:
> Modify SWIOTLB framework to allocate DMA memory always from SWIOTLB.
>
> CVMs use SWIOTLB buffers for bouncing memory when using dma_map_* APIs
> to setup memory for IO operations. SWIOTLB buffers are marked as shared
> once during early boot.
>
> Buffers allocated using dma_alloc_* APIs are allocated from kernel memory
> and then converted to shared during each API invocation. This patch ensures
> that such buffers are also allocated from already shared SWIOTLB
> regions. This allows enforcing alignment requirements on regions marked
> as shared.

But does it work in practice?

Some devices (like GPUs) require a lot of DMA memory. So with this approach
we would need to have huge SWIOTLB buffer that is unused in most VMs.

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Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov

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