linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 05/18] iommu/ioasid: Redefine IOASID set and allocation APIs

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Message-ID: <20210506122222.GP1370958@nvidia.com>
Date:   Thu, 6 May 2021 09:22:22 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>
Cc:     Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
        Auger Eric <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "cgroups@...r.kernel.org" <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, "Wu, Hao" <hao.wu@...el.com>,
        "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 05/18] iommu/ioasid: Redefine IOASID set and
 allocation APIs

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 04:23:19PM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote:
> > Which implies the API to the iommu driver should be more like:
> > 
> >   'assign an IOASID to this RID and return the PASID'
> >   'reserve a PASID from every RID'
> 
> I don't think this has any decent change of success. Its rather round about
> way to get a global PASID namespace.
> 
> >   'assign an IOASID to this RID and use this specific PASID'
> 
> This seems a bit complicated. Another way to specify this.

Maybe, but I don't like that the driver-based iommu API has been
corrupted by injecting a global 'first driver to claim it'
resource. It is not properly layered anymore.

Jason