* Dave Jones (davej(a)redhat.com) wrote:
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.
Upstream was still broken as recently as Friday for bad BIOSes (x200s in
this case). Wonder if opt-in via cmdline would be helpful?
thanks,
-chris