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

Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-07T11:56:43Z

On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 07:36:49AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:

> for /dev/ioasid there is still an open whether an process is allowed to
> open /dev/ioasid once or multiple times. If there is only one ioasid_fd
> per process, the accounting can be made accurately. otherwise the
> same problem still exists as each ioasid_fd is akin to the container, then
> we need find a better solution.

You can't really do tricks like 'FD once per process' in linux.

The locked page accounting problem is much bigger than vfio and I
don't really know of any solution..

Jason