Re: Plan for /dev/ioasid RFC v2

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Wed Jun 09 2021 - 08:24:10 EST


On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 02:58:18AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> - Device-centric (Jason) vs. group-centric (David) uAPI. David is not fully
> convinced yet. Based on discussion v2 will continue to have ioasid uAPI
> being device-centric (but it's fine for vfio to be group-centric). A new
> section will be added to elaborate this part;

I would vote for group-centric here. Or do the reasons for which VFIO is
group-centric not apply to IOASID? If so, why?

Regards,

Joerg