On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 12:46:51PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 01:37:11PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > > On 10.08.2026 12:20, Will Deacon wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 02:59:42PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > >> Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]> writes: > > >> > > >>> On 07.08.2026 20:20, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > >>>> On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 06:13:49PM +0000, Mostafa Saleh wrote: > > >>>>> But the whole thing is best effort anyway, the kernel picks > > >>>>> IO_TLB_DEFAULT_SIZE which does not depend on the system topology or > > >>>>> how many devices or how much DMA they do. > > >>>>> SWIOTLB memory is wasted if unused so we should be careful around > > >>>>> that as it would be the other way around and users would have to > > >>>>> decrease it manually. > > >>>> Yeah, it is why the arch code shouldn't really be sizing it directly, > > >>>> it should be done in common code and, yes, we are probably going to > > >>>> have to do something alot smarter to have the common code better > > >>>> auto-tune this for the CC case.. > > >>> What about the $subject patch? I assume that it is still needed to > > >>> > > >>> restore the behavior that was altered by the "[PATCH v8 00/23] > > >>> > > >>> dma-mapping: Track shared DMA state through direct, pool and swiotlb > > >>> > > >>> paths?" patchset? > > >>> > > >> I would request that we pick this patch to fix the regression described > > >> in https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/. > > > I really don't think we need it. CCA hardware isn't exactly widespread > > > and the KVM host side patches don't appear close to being merged. > > > > Does this mean that the branch for-next/coco [1] won't go to v7.3-rc1?
Let's not make progress on guest support contingent on KVM CCA host side patches please. I expect the CSPs will have VM instance types available based on CCA within quarters, and Linux as a Guest should work in those environments regardless of what KVM is doing. I don't really expect full KVM support for years, frankly, the patchset is massive. Even Intel and AMD don't have full KVM support yet. People already have CCA capable HW, are already testing this stuff and the closer upstream can get to being workable as a guest without a mountain of OOT patches the better. I agree the thing is not ideal, but it was merged to ARM like this a long time ago, this patch is just fixing a small oopsie (was it a merge conflict?) to put it back. I don't the objection. Jason
