RE: [RFC 0/7] Add SIOV virtual device support

Tian, Kevin
2023-10-09T23:33:57Z

> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 9, 2023 9:21 PM
>
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 01:51:16AM -0700, Yi Liu wrote:
> > Intel SIOV allows creating virtual devices of which the vRID is
> > represented by a pasid of a physical device. It is called as SIOV
> > virtual device in this series. Such devices can be bound to an iommufd
> > as physical device does and then later be attached to an IOAS/hwpt
> > using that pasid. Such PASIDs are called as default pasid.
>
> I would want to see the idxd implementation too..
>

It still needs some time (and unfortunately the guy working on idxd
is currently on a long vacation).

Instead of waiting we want to seek early comments on the iommufd
changes given that part is relatively self-contained. Same as what
Reinette is doing for IMS.

Certainly this is not for merging w/o having a driver user. 😊