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From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 08:52:18PM -0400, aafabbri wrote:
> You have to enforce group/iommu domain assignment whether you have the
> existing uiommu API, or if you change it to your proposed
> ioctl(inherit_iommu) API.
> 
> The only change needed to VFIO here should be to make uiommu fd assignment
> happen on the groups instead of on device fds.  That operation fails or
> succeeds according to the group semantics (all-or-none assignment/same
> uiommu).

That is makes uiommu basically the same as the meta-groups, right?

	Joerg

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