> From: Liu, Yi L <yi.l.liu@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 11:51 PM > > > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 11:11 PM > > > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 10:09:52AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote: > > > It's probably simpler if we always mark DMA owner with vfio_group > > > for the group path, no matter vfio type1 or iommufd compat is used. > > > This should avoid all the tricky corner cases between the two paths. > > > > Yes > > Then, we have two choices: > > 1) extend iommufd_device_bind() to allow a caller-specified DMA marker > 2) claim DMA owner before calling iommufd_device_bind(), still need to > extend iommufd_device_bind() to accept a flag to bypass DMA owner > claim > > which one would be better? or do we have a third choice? > first one
