On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 09:03:01AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 07:59:11PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote: > > > I just realized that either my v8 or your version calls unmap() > > first at the entire cur_ioas. So, there seems to be no point in > > doing that fallback re-add routine since the cur_ioas isn't the > > same, which I don't feel quite right... > > The point is to restore the access back to how it should be on failure > so future use of the accesss still does the right thing. > > We already have built into this a certain non-atomicity for mdevs, > they can see a pin failure during replace if they race an access > during this unmap window. This is similar to the real HW iommu's > without atomic replace. I was concerned about, after the replace, mdev losing all the mappings due to the unmap() call, which means the fallback is not really a status quo. Do you mean that they could pin those lost mappings back?
