On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 11:01 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Example: you have a mix of assigned devices and virtio devices. You > don't trust your assigned device vendor not to corrupt your memory so > you want to limit the damage your assigned device can do to your > guest, > so you use an IOMMU for that. Thus existing iommu=pt within guest is > out. > > But you trust your hypervisor (you have no choice anyway), > and you don't want the overhead of tweaking IOMMU > on data path for virtio. Thus iommu=on is out too. That's not at all special for virtio or guest VMs. Even with real hardware, we might want performance from *some* devices, and security from others. See the DMA_ATTR_IOMMU_BYPASS which is currently being discussed. But of course the easy answer in *your* case it just to ask the hypervisor not to put the virtio devices behind an IOMMU at all. Which we were planning to remain the default behaviour. In all cases, the DMA API shall do the right thing. -- dwmw2
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