On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 12:10:19PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> Another question: how does an emulated device work with a vSMMUv3?
> I could imagine that all the accel steps would be bypassed since
> !sdev->idev. Yet, the emulated iotlb should cache its translation
> so we will need to flush the iotlb, which will increase complexity
> as the TLBI command dispatching function will need to be aware what
> ASID is for emulated device and what is for vfio device..

I think you should block it. We already expect different vSMMU's
depending on the physical SMMU under the PCI device, it makes sense
that a SW VFIO device would have it's own, non-accelerated, vSMMU
model in the guest.

Jason

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