On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 08:23:10AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > On 04/06/2018 02:48 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 21:34 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >>> In this specific case, because that would make qemu expect an iommu, > >>> and there isn't one. > >> > >> > >> I think that you can set iommu_platform in qemu without an iommu. > > > > No I mean the platform has one but it's not desirable for it to be used > > due to the performance hit. > > Also the only requirement is to bounce the I/O buffers through SWIOTLB > implemented as DMA API which the virtio core understands. There is no > need for an IOMMU to be involved for the device representation in this > case IMHO.
This whole virtio translation issue is a mess. I think we need to switch it to the dma API, and then quirk the legacy case to always use the direct mapping inside the dma API. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
