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SubjectRe: [PATCH] intel-iommu: Default to non-coherent for domains unattached to iommus
On 11/11/2011 05:20 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 17:08 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
>
>> All the stale PTE issues I've encountered in the past have turned into
>> fixed sw bugs (perhaps it's since been fixed?). Also, I thought with
>> Coherency On/Off it's only effecting the use of clflush, not IOTLB or
>> Context Entry cache flushing (invalidations).
>>
> Yeah, it's supposed to be *just* clflush. Nevertheless, I can imagine it
> being screwed up and there actually being a buffer in the chipset too.
> We certainly made that mistake with the graphics engine in some cases...
>
>
>> On a slightly separate, but performance related note...have you ever
>> tried using the hw queue? Currently we only have a sw queue, but the
>> submission path for invalidations doesn't really queue (unless I missed
>> it). It seems to pull from the software queue and submit/wait,
>> submit/wait...Seems simple enough to submit the whole queue and then
>> issue the wait.
>>
> I have a feeling we trigger errata if we do that — although if we're
> only doing it for an emulated IOMMU that shouldn't be an issue.
>
>
What does the emulated IOMMU here? Does it mean the emulated IOMMU
exposed to guest VM?

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