Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] powerpc: pSeries: vfio: iommu: Re-enable support for SPAPR TCE VFIO

Jason Gunthorpe
2024-05-06T17:44:00Z

On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 12:33:53AM +0530, Shivaprasad G Bhat wrote:
> We have legacy workloads using VFIO in userspace/kvm guests running
> on downstream distro kernels. We want these workloads to be able to
> continue running on our arch.

It has been broken since 2018, I don't find this reasoning entirely
reasonable :\

> I firmly believe the refactoring in this patch series is a step in
> that direction.

But fine, as long as we are going to fix it. PPC really needs this to
be resolved to keep working.

Jason