Re: [RFC 11/20] iommu/iommufd: Add IOMMU_IOASID_ALLOC/FREE

Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-10-02T12:25:52Z

On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 02:21:38PM +1000, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au wrote:

> > > No. qemu needs to supply *both* the 32-bit and 64-bit range to its
> > > guest, and therefore needs to request both from the host.
> >
> > As I understood your remarks each IOAS can only be one of the formats
> > as they have a different PTE layout. So here I ment that qmeu needs to
> > be able to pick *for each IOAS* which of the two formats it is.
>
> No. Both windows are in the same IOAS. A device could do DMA
> simultaneously to both windows.

Sure, but that doesn't force us to model it as one IOAS in the
iommufd. A while back you were talking about using nesting and 3
IOAS's, right?

1, 2 or 3 IOAS's seems like a decision we can make.

PASID support will already require that a device can be multi-bound to
many IOAS's, couldn't PPC do the same with the windows?

Jason