This patch is related to how to calculate relative address for vhost
backend.
The principle is that: based on one or multiple shared memory regions,
vhost maintains a reference system with the frontend start address,
backend start address, and length for each segment, so that each
frontend address (GPA, Guest Physical Address) can be translated into
vhost-recognizable backend address. To make the address translation
efficient, we need to maintain as few regions as possible. In the case
of VM, GPA is always locally continuous. But for some other case, like
virtio-user, GPA continuous is not guaranteed, therefore, we use virtual
address here.
It basically means:
a. when set_base_addr, VA address is used;
b. when preparing RX's descriptors, VA address is used;
c. when transmitting packets, VA is filled in TX's descriptors;
d. in TX and CQ's header, VA is used.
Signed-off-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
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