[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v9 5/7] vfio: Define vfio based dma-buf operations
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Thu Jun 29 06:41:53 UTC 2017
Hi,
> > Does gvt track the live cycle of all dma-bufs it has handed out?
>
> The V9 implementation does track the dma-bufs' live cycle. The
> original idea was that leaving the dma-bufs' live cycle management to
> user mode.
That is still the case, user space decides which dma-bufs it'll go keep
cached. But kernel space can see what user space is doing, so there is
no need to explicitly tell the kernel whenever a cached dma-buf exists
or not.
cheers,
Gerd
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