Re: [PATCH RFCv1 08/14] iommufd: Add IOMMU_VIOMMU_SET_DEV_ID ioctl

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 10:40:07PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 06:42:56AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > > From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2024 11:47 AM
> > >
> > > Introduce a new ioctl to set a per-viommu device virtual id that should be
> > > linked to the physical device id (or just a struct device pointer).
> > >
> > > Since a viommu (user space IOMMU instance) can have multiple devices
> > 
> > this is true...
> > 
> > > while
> > > it's not ideal to confine a device to one single user space IOMMU instance
> > > either, these two shouldn't just do a 1:1 mapping. Add two xarrays in
> > 
> > ...but why would one device link to multiple viommu instances?
> 
> That's a suggestion from Jason, IIRC, to avoid limiting a device
> to a single viommu, though I can't find out the source at this
> moment.
> 
> Jason, would you mind shed some light here?

We could probably do it either way, it just doesn't seem like there is
a strong reason to limit a device to a single viommu even if in
practice that is how everyone will use it.

Jason