Re: [PATCH 07/14] vfio: simplify iommu group allocation for mediated devices

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On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 09:21:44AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> This feature is about creating a device that is not connected to a HW
> IO page table (at least by the VFIO iommu code) but the IO page table
> is held in software and accessed by the VFIO driver through the pin
> API.
> 
> virtual_iommu is somewhat overloaded with the idea of a vIOMMU created
> by qemu and stuffed into a guest..
> 
> "domainless" might work but I also find it confusing that the iommu
> code uses the word domain to refer to a HW IO page table :\
> 
> Maybe "sw io page table" ?

Or simply emulated?  At least looking at i915 there is very little
direct connection to the actual hardware, and while I don't understand
them fully the s390 driver look similar.  And the samples are completely
faked up anyway.



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