On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 6:29 PM Eugenio Perez Martin
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 9:34 AM Jason Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 4:10 PM Eugenio Perez Martin
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 8:17 AM Jason Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM Eugenio Pérez <[email protected]> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Add support for assigning Address Space Identifiers (ASIDs) to each VQ
> > > > > group.  This enables mapping each group into a distinct memory space.
> > > > >
> > > > > The vq group to ASID association is protected by a rwlock now.  But 
> > > > > the
> > > > > mutex domain_lock keeps protecting the domains of all ASIDs, as some
> > > > > operations like the one related with the bounce buffer size still
> > > > > requires to lock all the ASIDs.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez <[email protected]>
> > > > >
> > > > > ---
> > > > > Future improvements can include performance optimizations on top like
> > > > > ore to RCU or thread synchronized atomics, or hardening by tracking 
> > > > > ASID
> > > > > or ASID hashes on unused bits of the DMA address.
> > > > >
> > > > > Tested virtio_vdpa by adding manually two threads in vduse_set_status:
> > > > > one of them modifies the vq group 0 ASID and the other one map and 
> > > > > unmap
> > > > > memory continuously.  After a while, the two threads stop and the 
> > > > > usual
> > > > > work continues.  Test with version 0, version 1 with the old ioctl, 
> > > > > and
> > > > > version 1 with the new ioctl.
> > > > >
> > > > > Tested with vhost_vdpa by migrating a VM while ping on OVS+VDUSE.  A 
> > > > > few
> > > > > workaround were needed in some parts:
> > > > > * Do not enable CVQ before data vqs in QEMU, as VDUSE does not forward
> > > > >   the enable message to the userland device.  This will be solved in 
> > > > > the
> > > > >   future.
> > > > > * Share the suspended state between all vhost devices in QEMU:
> > > > >   
> > > > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2025-11/msg02947.html
> > > > > * Implement a fake VDUSE suspend vdpa operation callback that always
> > > > >   returns true in the kernel.  DPDK suspend the device at the first
> > > > >   GET_VRING_BASE.
> > > > > * Remove the CVQ blocker in ASID.
> > > > >
> > > > > The driver vhost_vdpa was also tested with version 0, version 1 with 
> > > > > the
> > > > > old ioctl, version 1 with the new ioctl but only one ASID, and 
> > > > > version 1
> > > > > with many ASID.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Looks good overall, but I spot a small issue:
> > > >
> > > > int vduse_domain_add_user_bounce_pages(struct vduse_iova_domain *domain,
> > > >                                        struct page **pages, int count)
> > > > {
> > > >         struct vduse_bounce_map *map, *head_map;
> > > >         ...
> > > >
> > > >         /* Now we don't support partial mapping */
> > > >         if (count != (domain->bounce_size >> PAGE_SHIFT))
> > > >                 return -EINVAL;
> > > >
> > > > Here we still use domain->bounce_size even if we support multiple as,
> > > > this conflicts with the case without userspace memory.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I don't follow you. My understanding from the previous discussion is
> > > that the bounce size is distributed evenly per AS. Should we just have
> > > a global bounce buffer size and protect that the amount of added
> > > memory of all domains is less than that bounce size?
> >
> > I meant we require bounce_size / nas to be the size of the bounce
> > buffer size of each AS.
> >
> > But for userspace registered memory, it requires bounce_size per AS.
> >
>
> I still don't follow you, sorry :(.
>
> Can you explain in terms of "Previously, the VDUSE userspace could
> perform XXX ioctl and YYY action and now it is impossible", or "I
> expect future VDUSE applications to be able to do XXX action through
> YYY but it is not possible to do in the current series".
>
> I think we have three options for bounce_size regarding ASID:
> 1) We make all of the AS respect a total bounce size, like the firsts
> iterations of the series, and then we need total sync between them in
> calls like this. The userland application can only allocate user
> bounce pages in one AS with this code. I can modify it but it still
> requires synchronization across all domains.
> 2) We distribute the bounce pages evenly between AS,
> as the current
> version. As discussed, it may be a waste for CVQ for example but it
> seems reasonable to just not add user pages to CVQ and just bounce it
> in the kernel. Management can just expand the total size and live with
> it [1].
> 3) We expand the /sys attributes so the userland can specify bounce
> sizes per AS. I think we agreed it is overkill, and honestly I'd leave
> that for future improvements on top if we find we actually need it.
>
> [1] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CACGkMEsZiX-M-PNGX8W7GprBJmiGi9Gz1=ayE=imap3wo3v...@mail.gmail.com/

Apologize, I misread the code. I think the code is fine.

So

Acked-by: Jason Wang <[email protected]>

Thanks


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