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SubjectRe: [RFC 0/4] Virtio uses DMA API for all devices
On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 03:09:55AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> So in this case however I'm not sure what exactly do we want to add. It
> seems that from point of view of the device, there is nothing special -
> it just gets a PA and writes there. It also seems that guest does not
> need to get any info from the device either. Instead guest itself needs
> device to DMA into specific addresses, for its own reasons.
>
> It seems that the fact that within guest it's implemented using a bounce
> buffer and that it's easiest to do by switching virtio to use the DMA API
> isn't something virtio spec concerns itself with.

And that is exactly what we added bus_dma_mask for - the case where
the device itself has not limitation (or a bigger limitation), but
the platform limits the accessible dma ranges. One typical case is
a PCIe root port that is only connected to the CPU through an
interconnect that is limited to 32 address bits for example.

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