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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 12:43:38 +0200
From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@...ux.net>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] /dev/ioasid uAPI proposal
On 04.06.21 14:30, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
Hi,
> Containers already needed to do this today. Container orchestration is
> hard.
Yes, but I hate to see even more work upcoming here.
> Yes, /dev/ioasid shouldn't do anything unless you have a device to
> connect it with. In this way it is probably safe to stuff it into
> every container.
Okay, if we can guarantee that, I'm completely fine.
>>> Having FDs spawn other FDs is pretty ugly, it defeats the "everything
>>> is a file" model of UNIX.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this is already defeated in many other places :(
>> (I'd even claim that ioctls already break it :p)
>
> I think you are reaching a bit :)
>
>> It seems your approach also breaks this, since we now need to open two
>> files in order to talk to one device.
>
> It is two devices, thus two files.
Two separate real (hardware) devices or just two logical device nodes ?
--mtx
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