On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 13:19:03 -0400 Jason Gunthorpe <j...@nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 08:55:31AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > I think Kevin's point is also relative to this latter scenario, in the > > L1 instance of the nvgrace-gpu driver the mmap of the usemem BAR is > > cachable, but in the L2 instance of the driver where we only use the > > vfio-pci-core ops nothing maintains that cachable mapping. Is that a > > problem? An uncached mapping on top of a cachable mapping is often > > prone to problems. > > On these CPUs the ARM architecture won't permit it, the L0 level > blocks uncachable using FWB and page table attributes. The VM, no > matter what it does, cannot make the cachable memory uncachable. Great, thanks, Alex
