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Subject: Re: (proposal) RE: [PATCH v7 00/16] vfio: expose virtual Shared
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On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 11:22:23AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> This whole thread was brought up by IDXD which has a SVA driver and
> now wants to add a vfio-mdev driver too. SVA devices that want to be
> plugged into VMs are going to be common - this architecture that a SVA
> driver cannot cover the kvm case seems problematic.

Isn't that the same pattern as having separate drivers for VFs and the
parent device in SR-IOV?

Regards,

	Joerg