Re: [PATCH RFC 0/1] VFIO: Region-specific file descriptors

2019-10-02 Thread Shawn Anastasio
On 10/1/19 10:38 AM, Alex Williamson wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:55:32 -0500 Shawn Anastasio wrote: This patch adds region file descriptors to VFIO, a simple file descriptor type that allows read/write/mmap operations on a single region of a VFIO device. This feature is particularly useful

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/1] VFIO: Region-specific file descriptors

2019-10-01 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:55:32 -0500 Shawn Anastasio wrote: > This patch adds region file descriptors to VFIO, a simple file descriptor type > that allows read/write/mmap operations on a single region of a VFIO device. > > This feature is particularly useful for privileged applications that use VF

[PATCH RFC 0/1] VFIO: Region-specific file descriptors

2019-09-30 Thread Shawn Anastasio
This patch adds region file descriptors to VFIO, a simple file descriptor type that allows read/write/mmap operations on a single region of a VFIO device. This feature is particularly useful for privileged applications that use VFIO and wish to share file descriptors with unprivileged applications