Re: (proposal) RE: [PATCH v7 00/16] vfio: expose virtual Shared Virtual Addressing to VMs

joro
2020-11-03T14:35:40Z

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 10:06:42AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> The point is that other places beyond VFIO need this

Which and why?

> Sure, but sometimes it is necessary, and in those cases the answer
> can't be "rewrite a SVA driver to use vfio"

This is getting to abstract. Can you come up with an example where
handling this in VFIO or an endpoint device kernel driver does not work?

Regards,

Joerg