cloud-hypervisor/vmm
Sebastien Boeuf a6040d7a30 vmm: Create a single VFIO container
For most use cases, there is no need to create multiple VFIO containers
as it causes unwanted behaviors. Especially when passing multiple
devices from the same IOMMU group, we need to use the same container so
that it can properly list the groups that have been already opened. The
correct logic was already there in vfio-ioctls, but it was incorrectly
used from our VMM implementation.

For the special case where we put a VFIO device behind a vIOMMU, we must
create one container per device, as we need to control the DMA mappings
per device, which is performed at the container level. Because we must
keep one container per device, the vIOMMU use case prevents multiple
devices attached to the same IOMMU group to be passed through the VM.
But this is a limitation that we are fine with, especially since the
vIOMMU doesn't let us group multiple devices in the same group from a
guest perspective.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
2021-09-15 09:08:13 -07:00
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src vmm: Create a single VFIO container 2021-09-15 09:08:13 -07:00
Cargo.toml build: bump serde_json from 1.0.67 to 1.0.68 2021-09-15 00:06:23 +00:00