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Re: [PATCH 08/12] x86: centralize setting SWIOTLB_FORCE when guest memory encryption is enabled
- To: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 12:43:35 +0100
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- Delivery-date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 11:43:45 +0000
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 11:39:29AM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> This isn't really "must". The guest is perfectly capable of sharing
> memory with the hypervisor.
>
> It's just that for now, bounce buffering is allegedly faster, and the
> simple way of getting it working.
Yeah, I guess you щould just share/unshare on demand. But given that
this isn't implemented it is a must in the current kernel. But if
you want a different wording suggest one and I'll put it in.
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