Re: [PATCH] vduse: implement DMA sync callbacks

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:06:06PM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> Since commit 295525e29a5b ("virtio_net: merge dma
> operations when filling mergeable buffers"), VDUSE device
> require support for DMA's .sync_single_for_cpu() operation
> as the memory is non-coherent between the device and CPU
> because of the use of a bounce buffer.
> 
> This patch implements both .sync_single_for_cpu() and
> sync_single_for_device() callbacks, and also skip bounce
> buffer copies during DMA map and unmap operations if the
> DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC attribute is set to avoid extra
> copies of the same buffer.

vduse really needs to get out of implementing fake DMA operations for
something that is not DMA.