Re: [PATCH v2 13/40] vfio: Add support for Shared Virtual Addressing

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On 2018/9/3 18:34, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
On 01/09/18 03:23, Xu Zaibo wrote:
As one application takes a whole function while using VFIO-PCI, why do
the application and the
function need to enable PASID capability? (Since just one I/O page table
is enough for them.)
At the moment the series doesn't provide support for SVA without PASID
(on the I/O page fault path, 08/40). In addition the BIND ioctl could be
used by the owner application to bind other processes (slaves) and
perform sub-assignment. But that feature is incomplete because we don't
send stop_pasid notification to the owner when a slave dies.

So, Could I understand like this?

1. While the series are finished well, VFIO-PCI device can be held by only one process through binding IOCTL command without PASID (without PASID being exposed user space).

2. While using VFIO-PCI device to support multiple processes with SVA series, a primary process with multiple secondary processes must be deployed just like DPDK(https://www.dpdk.org/).
        And, the PASID still has to be exposed to user land.


Thanks,
Zaibo

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