[PATCH 1/9] vfio: Make vfio_(un)register_notifier accept a vfio_device
Tian, Kevin
kevin.tian at intel.com
Thu Apr 14 02:15:50 UTC 2022
> From: Wang, Zhi A <zhi.a.wang at intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2022 5:09 AM
>
> > Or is it that only the page table levels themselves are GFNs and the
> > actual DMA's are IOVA? The unclear mixing of GFN as IOVA in the code
> > makes it inscrutible.
> >
>
> No. Even the HW is capable of controlling the level of translation, but
> it's not used like this in the existing driver. It's definitely an
> architecture open.
>
There is no open on this. Any guest memory that vGPU accesses must
be IOVA including page table levels. There is only one address space
per vRID.
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