Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH vhost next 09/10] vdpa/mlx5: Add shared memory registration code | From | Jason Wang <> | Date | Thu, 16 Jul 2020 17:32:38 +0800 |
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On 2020/7/16 下午4:28, Eli Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 04:13:21PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> On 2020/7/16 下午3:23, Eli Cohen wrote: >>> Add code to support registering guest's memory region for the device. >> >> It would be better to use "userspace" memory here since vhost-vDPA >> could be used by e.g dpdk application on the host in the future. >> > How about replaciing "guest's memory" with "address space". It is more > general and aligns with the with the fact that virio driver can run in > the guest's kernel.
Probably but note that guest driver is not the only user for this. It could be either:
1) Guest virtio driver 2) Userspace virtio driver on the host 3) Kernel virtio driver on the host.
Thanks
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