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From:   Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 20 Sep 2019 08:07:38 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 11/14] arm64: Move the ASID allocator code in a
 separate file
To:     Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:18 PM Jean-Philippe Brucker
<jean-philippe@linaro.org> wrote:

>
> The SMMU does support PCI Virtual Function - an hypervisor can assign a
> VF to a guest, and let that guest partition the VF into smaller contexts
> by using PASID.  What it can't support is assigning partitions of a PCI
> function (VF or PF) to multiple Virtual Machines, since there is a
> single S2 PGD per function (in the Stream Table Entry), rather than one
> S2 PGD per PASID context.
>
In my concept, the two sentences "The SMMU does support PCI Virtual
Functio" v.s. "What it can't support is assigning partitions of a PCI
function (VF or PF) to multiple Virtual Machines" are conflict and I
don't want to play naming game :)

-- 
Best Regards
 Guo Ren

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