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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com>
Cc: jroedel <jroedel@suse.de>, gbatra <gbatra@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@linux.ibm.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	npiggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	aneesh kumar <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>,
	iommu <iommu@lists.linux.dev>, bgray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>,
	naveen n rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>,
	vaibhav <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>, aik <aik@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: iommu: Bring back table group release_ownership() call
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:44:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240126154427.GB50608@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453449220.10126352.1706283596477.JavaMail.zimbra@raptorengineeringinc.com>

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 09:39:56AM -0600, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > Just forget about the weird KVM and SPAPR stuff, leave it under the
> > kconfig of the old code and nobody will run it. Almost nobody already
> > runs it, apparently.
> 
> We actually use QEMU/KVM/VFIO extensively at Raptor, so need the
> support and need it to be performant...

I wonder if you alone are the "almost" :)

The KVM entanglement was hairy and scary. I never did figure out what
was really going on there. Maybe you don't need all of it and can be
successful with a more typical iommu working model?

Suggest to tackle it after getting the first parts done.

Jason

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-01-26 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-25 12:08 [PATCH 0/2] powerpc: iommu: Fix the vfio-pci bind and unbind issues Shivaprasad G Bhat
2024-01-25 12:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: iommu: Bring back table group release_ownership() call Shivaprasad G Bhat
2024-01-25 15:50   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-01-26 15:13     ` Shivaprasad G Bhat
2024-01-26 15:17       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-01-26 15:29         ` Timothy Pearson
2024-01-26 15:38           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-01-26 15:39             ` Timothy Pearson
2024-01-26 15:44               ` Timothy Pearson
2024-01-26 15:44               ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2024-01-25 12:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] iommu: Fix the domain type checks when default_domain is set Shivaprasad G Bhat
2024-01-25 15:52   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-01-26 15:19     ` Shivaprasad G Bhat

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