On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 08:45:28PM +0800, Baolu Lu wrote: > My understanding is that device driver owns its PASID policy. I'm not sure this is actually useful, the core code should provide the allocator as I can't think of any device that actually needs a special allocator. > If ENQCMD is supported on the device, the PASIDs should be allocated > through ioasid_alloc(). Otherwise, the whole PASID pool is managed > by the device driver. This is OK only if we know in-advance that the device needs a global PASID. ENQCMD is one reason, maybe there are others down the road. Better to make this core code policy. Jason
