Re: [PATCH RFC 04/12] kernel/user: Allow user::locked_vm to be usable for iommufd

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 8:23 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 09:53:27AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > To me, it looks more easier to not answer this question by letting
> > userspace know about the change,
>
> That is not backwards compatbile, so I don't think it helps unless we
> say if you open /dev/vfio/vfio you get old behavior and if you open
> /dev/iommu you get new...

Actually, this is one way to go. Trying to behave exactly like typ1
might be not easy.

>
> Nor does it answer if I can fix RDMA or not :\
>

vDPA has a backend feature negotiation, then actually, userspace can
tell vDPA to go with the new accounting approach. Not sure RDMA can do
the same.

Thanks

> So we really do need to know what exactly is the situation here.
>
> Jason
>




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