[PATCH v3 16/23] Documentation: userspace-api: iommufd: Update vQUEUE

Bagas Sanjaya bagasdotme at gmail.com
Thu May 1 20:50:07 PDT 2025


On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 04:01:22PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> +- IOMMUFD_OBJ_VQUEUE, representing a hardware accelerated virtual queue, as a
> +  subset of IOMMU's virtualization features, for the IOMMU HW to directly read
> +  or write the virtual queue memory owned by a guest OS. This HW-acceleration
> +  allows VM to work with the IOMMU HW directly without a VM Exit, i.e. reducing
> +  overhead from the hypercalls. Along with this vQUEUE object, iommufd provides
> +  user space an mmap interface for VMM to mmap a physical MMIO region from the
> +  host physical address space to the guest physical address space, allowing the
> +  guest OS to control the allocated vQUEUE HW. Thus, when allocating a vQUEUE,
> +  the VMM must request a pair of VMA info (vm_pgoff/size) for an mmap syscall.
> +  The length argument of an mmap syscall can be smaller than the given size for
> +  a partial mmap, but the addr argument of the mmap syscall should never offset
> +  from the returned vm_pgoff, which implies that an mmap will always start from

Did you mean never be offset from returned vm_pgoff?

> +  the beginning of the physical MMIO region.
> +

Confused...

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