On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 11:48:48AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 09:55:26AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 08:49:02AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > IMHO, this patch series needs to spend more time internally to Red Hat
> > > before it is presented to the community.
> > 
> > Just to add an example why I think this "internal review" is a bad idea
> > I seem to recall that someone internal to nvidia at some point
> > attempted to implement this already. The only output from that
> > work we have is that "it's tough" - no pointers to what's tough,
> > no code to study even as a bad path to follow.
> > And while Red Hat might be big, the virt team is rather smaller.
> 
> I don't think Nicolin got to a presentable code point.
> 
> But you can start to see the issues even in this series, like
> simulator is complicated. mlx5 is complicated. Deciding to omit those
> is one path. Come with a proposal and justification to take it out,
> not a patch with an unexplained #ifdef.

Right. Simulator I don't think we need to support, or at least
not necessarily to get this merged - it does not really
benefit from any iommufd features.

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