[dpdk-dev] Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to uio_pci_generic on Amazon instance

[Vlad Zolotarov]

On 09/30/15 18:26, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 03:50:09PM +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
>> How not virtualizing iommu forces "all or nothing" approach?
> Looks like you can't limit an assigned device to only access part of
> guest memory that belongs to a given process.  Either let it access all
> of guest memory ("all") or don't assign the device ("nothing").

Ok. A question then: can u limit the assigned device to only access part 
of the guest memory even if iommu was virtualized? How would iommu 
virtualization change anything? And why do we care about an assigned 
device to be able to access all Guest memory?

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