Re: kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings

On 08/20/2011 07:51 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:

We need to address both the description and enforcement of device
groups.  Groups are formed any time the iommu does not have resolution
between a set of devices.  On x86, this typically happens when a
PCI-to-PCI bridge exists between the set of devices and the iommu.  For
Power, partitionable endpoints define a group.  Grouping information
needs to be exposed for both userspace and kernel internal usage.  This
will be a sysfs attribute setup by the iommu drivers.  Perhaps:

# cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/iommu_group
42

$ readlink /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/iommu_group
../../../path/to/device/which/represents/the/resource/constraint

(the pci-to-pci bridge on x86, or whatever node represents partitionable endpoints on power)

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.