On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 06:34 +0000, hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 09:43:27PM +0000, Derrick, Jonathan wrote: > > Feel free to review my set to disable the MSI remapping which will > > make > > it perform as well as direct-attached: > > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pci/list/?series=325681 > > So that then we have to deal with your schemes to make individual > device direct assignment work in a convoluted way? That's not the intent of that patchset -at all-. It was to address the performance bottlenecks with VMD that you constantly complain about. > Please just give us > a disable nob for VMD, which solves _all_ these problems without > adding > any. I don't see the purpose of this line of discussion. VMD has been in the kernel for 5 years. We are constantly working on better support.