11 Sep
2024
11 Sep
'24
11:07 p.m.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 08:13:01AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
Probably there is a good reason e.g. for simplification or better aligned with hw accel stuff. But it's not explained clearly so far.
Probably the most concrete thing is if you have a direct assignment invalidation queue (ie DMA'd directly by HW) then it only applies to a single pIOMMU and invalidation commands placed there are unavoidably limited in scope.
This creates a representation problem, if we have a vIOMMU that spans many pIOMMUs but invalidations do some subset how to do we model that. Just saying the vIOMMU is linked to the pIOMMU solves this nicely.
Jason