On Mon, Feb 07 2022 at 15:02, Fenghua Yu wrote:

> PASIDs are process wide. It was attempted to use refcounted PASIDs to
> free them when the last thread drops the refcount. This turned out to
> be complex and error prone. Given the fact that the PASID space is 20
> bits, which allows up to 1M processes to have a PASID associated
> concurrently, PASID resource exhaustion is not a realistic concern.
>
> Therefore it was decided to simplify the approach and stick with lazy
> on demand PASID allocation, but drop the eager free approach and make
> a allocated PASID lifetime bound to the life time of the process.
>
> Get rid of the refcounting mechanisms and replace/rename the interfaces
> to reflect this new approach.
>
> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua...@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
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