Re: [PATCH v3 16/23] Documentation: userspace-api: iommufd: Update vQUEUE

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 10:29:58PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 10:50:07AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 04:01:22PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> > > +- IOMMUFD_OBJ_VQUEUE, representing a hardware accelerated virtual queue, as a
> > > +  subset of IOMMU's virtualization features, for the IOMMU HW to directly read
> > > +  or write the virtual queue memory owned by a guest OS. This HW-acceleration
> > > +  allows VM to work with the IOMMU HW directly without a VM Exit, i.e. reducing
> > > +  overhead from the hypercalls. Along with this vQUEUE object, iommufd provides
> > > +  user space an mmap interface for VMM to mmap a physical MMIO region from the
> > > +  host physical address space to the guest physical address space, allowing the
> > > +  guest OS to control the allocated vQUEUE HW. Thus, when allocating a vQUEUE,
> > > +  the VMM must request a pair of VMA info (vm_pgoff/size) for an mmap syscall.
> > > +  The length argument of an mmap syscall can be smaller than the given size for
> > > +  a partial mmap, but the addr argument of the mmap syscall should never offset
> > > +  from the returned vm_pgoff, which implies that an mmap will always start from
> > 
> > Did you mean never be offset from returned vm_pgoff?
> 
> Yes. Will fix this.
> 
> > > +  the beginning of the physical MMIO region.
> > > +
> > 
> > Confused...
> 
> Meaning that VMM should just use the given vm_pgoff as is, without
> adding any offset to the vm_pgoff.

Understood, thanks!
 
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