Re: [RFC] /dev/ioasid uAPI proposal

Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-02T23:27:06Z

On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 01:25:00AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:

> OK, this implies that if one user inadvertently creates intended parent/
> child via different fd's then the operation will simply fail.

Remember the number space to refer to the ioasid's inside the FD is
local to that instance of the FD. Each FD should have its own xarray

You can't actually accidently refer to an IOASID in FD A from FD B
because the xarray lookup in FD B will not return 'IOASID A'.

Jason