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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V3 10/11] HV/Netvsc: Add Isolation VM support for
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From:   Tianyu Lan <ltykernel@gmail.com>
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Date:   Tue, 15 Jun 2021 22:31:31 +0800
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On 6/14/2021 11:33 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 10:04:06PM +0800, Tianyu Lan wrote:
>> The pages in the hv_page_buffer array here are in the kernel linear
>> mapping. The packet sent to host will contain an array which contains
>> transaction data. In the isolation VM, data in the these pages needs to be
>> copied to bounce buffer and so call dma_map_single() here to map these data
>> pages with bounce buffer. The vmbus has ring buffer where the send/receive
>> packets are copied to/from. The ring buffer has been remapped to the extra
>> space above shared gpa boundary/vTom during probing Netvsc driver and so
>> not call dma map function for vmbus ring
>> buffer.
> 
> So why do we have all that PFN magic instead of using struct page or
> the usual kernel I/O buffers that contain a page pointer?
> 

These PFNs originally is part of Hyper-V protocol data and will be sent
to host. Host accepts these GFN and copy data from/to guest memory. The 
translation from va to pa is done by caller that populates the 
hv_page_buffer array. I will try calling dma map function before 
populating struct hv_page_buffer and this can avoid redundant 
translation between PA and VA.