Re: Intel IOMMU (and IOMMU for Virtualization) performances

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On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:49:12PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:

> > I didn't check....but reserving MMIO address space might be better
> > done by looking at MMIO ranges routed by all the top level PCI
> > Host-bus controllers (aka PCI-e Root ports). Maybe this is an idea
> > for Mark Gross to implement.
> 
> Calgary IOMMU code does the similar stuff, but I'm not sure. Anyway,
> as you said, it's about what Mark might be interested in.

I'm not sure it's strictly necessary, but we observed Bad Things(TM)
happening when we gave out DMA addresses that corresponded to MMIO
regions and black-listing those regions seemed the safest thing to do.

Cheers,
Muli
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