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The point is the VMM doesn't care about > > any of this. It just wants to connect KVM to VFIO and have the kernel > > internally negotiate the details of how that works. > > > > There is zero value in the VMM being aware that KVM/VFIO is using > > cachable or non-cachable mappings because it will never touch this > > memory anyhow, and arguably it would be happier if it wasn't even in a > > VMA in the first place. > > I think this was discussed at some point in the past - what about > ignoring the VMA altogether and using an fd-based approach? Keep the > current VFIO+vma ABI non-cacheable and introduce a new one for cacheable > I/O mappings, e.g. KVM_MEM_IOFD. Is there a way for VFIO to communicate > the attributes to KVM on the type of mapping in the absence of a VMA > (e.g. via the inode)? If not: I hope to see that someday. The CC people are working in that direction, but we are still far from getting enough agreement from all the stakeholders on how that will work. > Stage 2 could default to non-cacheable and we can add a > KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_IO_WB as an option to I don't think we should ever allow KVM to create a non-cachable mapping of an otherwise cachable object?? Jason