On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 04:37:38PM +1100, david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > PASID support will already require that a device can be multi-bound to > > many IOAS's, couldn't PPC do the same with the windows? > > I don't see how that would make sense. The device has no awareness of > multiple windows the way it does of PASIDs. It just sends > transactions over the bus with the IOVAs it's told. If those IOVAs > lie within one of the windows, the IOMMU picks them up and translates > them. If they don't, it doesn't. To my mind that address centric routing is awareness. If the HW can attach multiple non-overlapping IOAS's to the same device then the HW is routing to the correct IOAS by using the address bits. This is not much different from the prior discussion we had where we were thinking of the PASID as an 80 bit address The fact the PPC HW actually has multiple page table roots and those roots even have different page tables layouts while still connected to the same device suggests this is not even an unnatural modelling approach... Jason
