> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 10:56 PM
> To: Hu, Jiayu <[email protected]>; Ding, Xuan <[email protected]>;
> [email protected]; Burakov, Anatoly <[email protected]>; Xia, Chenbo
> <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jiang, Cheng1 <[email protected]>; Richardson, Bruce
> <[email protected]>; Pai G, Sunil <[email protected]>; Wang,
> Yinan <[email protected]>; Yang, YvonneX <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] vhost: enable IOMMU for async vhost
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/23/21 16:39, Hu, Jiayu wrote:
> > Hi Xuan,
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ding, Xuan <[email protected]>
> >> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2021 1:26 PM
> >> To: [email protected]; Burakov, Anatoly <[email protected]>;
> >> [email protected]; Xia, Chenbo <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: Hu, Jiayu <[email protected]>; Jiang, Cheng1 <[email protected]>;
> >> Richardson, Bruce <[email protected]>; Pai G, Sunil
> >> <[email protected]>; Wang, Yinan <[email protected]>; Yang,
> >> YvonneX <[email protected]>; Ding, Xuan <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] vhost: enable IOMMU for async vhost
> >>
> >> The use of IOMMU has many advantages, such as isolation and address
> >> translation. This patch extends the capbility of DMA engine to use IOMMU if
> >> the DMA engine is bound to vfio.
> >>
> >> When set memory table, the guest memory will be mapped into the default
> >> container of DPDK.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Xuan Ding <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >>   lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h  |  1 +
> >>   lib/vhost/vhost_user.c | 57
> >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >>   2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h b/lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h index
> >> 8d875e9322..e0537249f3 100644
> >> --- a/lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h
> >> +++ b/lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h
> >> @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ struct rte_vhost_mem_region {
> >>    void     *mmap_addr;
> >>    uint64_t mmap_size;
> >>    int fd;
> >> +  uint64_t dma_map_success;
> >
> > How about using bool for dma_map_success?
> 
> The bigger problem here is that you are breaking the ABI.

Maybe this kind of driver-facing structs/functions should be removed
from ABI, since we are refactoring DPDK ABI recently.

/Chenbo

> 
> >>   };
> >>
> >>   /**

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