RE: [RFC PATCH 12/21] KVM: IOMMUFD: MEMFD: Map private pages

Tian, Kevin
2024-09-05T12:07:25Z

> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2024 8:02 PM
>
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 08:29:16AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>
> > Could you elaborate why the new uAPI is for making vPCI "bind capable"
> > instead of doing the actual binding to KVM?
>
> I don't see why you'd do any of this in KVM, I mean you could, but you
> also don't have to and KVM people don't really know about all the VFIO
> parts anyhow.
>

that's not my point. I was asking why this VFIO uAPI is not for linking/
binding a vPCI device to KVM (not do it in KVM) while making it just 'bind
capable'. 😊