On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:55:27PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Here's some proposed config changes.
Jumping on the wagon ;)
Can we enable CONFIG_DMAR please? This turns on the IOMMU on intel
boxes, using VT-d. Called "DMA Remapping" in intel speak, this is where
the config option name comes from. Advantages:
(1) 32bit PCI devices can DMA to memory above 4G, thus the need for
swiotlb (i.e. bounce buffers) is gone.
(2) It allows kvm to pass through PCI devices to guests securely.
The last time we tried this, it blew up a lot due to broken BIOSes.
Maybe it's been improved enough to tolerate them, so we can probably
give it a spin in rawhide for a while to see what happens.
Dave
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