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SubjectRe: [PATCH] VFIO driver: Non-privileged user level PCI drivers
On 06/02/2010 03:19 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>
>> Yes. so you do:
>> iommu = open
>> ioctl(dev1, BIND, iommu)
>> ioctl(dev2, BIND, iommu)
>> ioctl(dev3, BIND, iommu)
>> ioctl(dev4, BIND, iommu)
>>
>> No need to add a SHARE ioctl.
>>
> In my proposal this looks like:
>
>
> dev1 = open();
> ioctl(dev2, SHARE, dev1);
> ioctl(dev3, SHARE, dev1);
> ioctl(dev4, SHARE, dev1);
>
> So we actually save an ioctl.
>

The problem with this is that it is assymetric, dev1 is treated
differently from dev[234]. It's an unintuitive API.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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