Re: [PATCH v7 1/1] vfio/nvgpu: Add vfio pci variant module for grace hopper

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Aug 31 2023 - 08:26:43 EST


On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:39:05PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 06:50:32AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I know I'm chiming in a bit late, but what ultimate user space is going
> > to use this? We should not add anything to the kernel that can't
> > be used without fully open user space.
>
> qemu will get the matching VFIO userspace patches, I think they were
> posted someplace already.

Well, that's not what I mean with full userspace. Whats the actual
consumer running in a qemu VM here?