linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers

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Date:	Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:53:54 +0200
From:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:	Tom Lyon <pugs@...n-about.com>
Cc:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	chrisw@...s-sol.org, hjk@...utronix.de, gregkh@...e.de,
	aafabbri@...co.com, scofeldm@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:59:40PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote:
> This is just what I was thinking.  But rather than a get/set, just use two fds.
> 
> 	ioctl(vfio_fd1, VFIO_SET_DOMAIN, vfio_fd2);
> 
> This may fail if there are really 2 different IOMMUs, so user code must be
> prepared for failure,  In addition, this is strictlyupwards compatible with 
> what is there now, so maybe we can add it later.

How can this fail with multiple IOMMUs? This should be handled
transparently by the IOMMU driver.

	Joerg

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