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Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 07/13] iommu/vt-d: Add SVA domain support
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On 2022/9/23 21:07, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 08:41:56PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
>> On 2022/9/23 20:15, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 10:21:51AM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote:
>>>
>>>> At the beginning of this project, I wanted to consolidate the mm
>>>> notifications into the core. However, ARM SMMUv3 and Intel handle the mm
>>>> notifications a little differently. Then I decided to do this work
>>>> separately from the current series.
>>> It doesn't look really different..
>> They are essentially the same, but slightly different. For example, arm
>> smmuv3 provides .free_notifier, and I don't think it could be merged to
>> the release callback.
> free_notifier allows to use mmu_notifier_put() instead of
> mmu_notifier_unregister() which avoids a synchronize_rcu() penalty on
> teardown. Intel should copy the same design.

Ah! Thanks for the guide. I will head in this direction.

Best regards,
baolu