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From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
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Subject: Re: Plan for /dev/ioasid RFC v2
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 02:58:18AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> -   Device-centric (Jason) vs. group-centric (David) uAPI. David is not fully
>     convinced yet. Based on discussion v2 will continue to have ioasid uAPI
>     being device-centric (but it's fine for vfio to be group-centric). A new
>     section will be added to elaborate this part;

I would vote for group-centric here. Or do the reasons for which VFIO is
group-centric not apply to IOASID? If so, why?

Regards,

	Joerg