Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/25] Xen/doc: Add Xen virtual IOMMU doc

[Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2017年07月05日 21:25, Julien Grall wrote:
> Furthermore, on ARM we would be able to create the vIOMMU but it would
> be unusable. Indeed, IOMMU are only used to protect devices. But you
> don't see any way to say "This device is protected by the IOMMU". Did I
> miss anything?

The "device protection" you mentioned is DMA protection, right?. It's
one of IOMMU capabilities. IOMMU also provides interrupt remapping and
SVM(Shared virtual memory). I see ARM side also is pushing SVM feature
in KVM maillist for native support. Finally, it needs to support SVM in
VM and so virtual IOMMU is necessary regardless of full-virtualized or
PV IOMMU

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-March/491614.html


-- 
Best regards
Tianyu Lan

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel