On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 02:07:58PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 03:33:40PM +0100, Halil Pasic wrote:
> > AFAIU you have a positive attitude towards the idea, that 
> > !F_VIRTIO_PLATFORM implies 'no DMA API is used by virtio' 
> > should be scrapped. 
> > 
> > I would like to accomplish that without adverse effects to virtio-ccw
> > (because caring for virtio-ccw is a part of job description).
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Halil
> 
> It is possible, in theory. IIRC the main challenge is that DMA API
> has overhead of indirect function calls even when all it
> does it return back the PA without changes.

That overhead is gone now, the DMA direct calls are direct calls these
days.
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