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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 03/16] iommu: introduce iommu invalidate API function
    On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 01:48:00PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
    > I wonder if SVM originated in OpenCL first, rather than intel? That's why
    > I'm using it, but it is ambiguous. I'm not sure IOVM is precise enough
    > though, since the name could as well be used without shared tables, for
    > classical map/unmap and IOVAs. Kevin Tian suggested SVA "Shared Virtual
    > Addressing" last time, which is a little more clear than SVM and isn't
    > used elsewhere in the kernel either.

    SVA sounds even better. Feel free to use that for all the PRI/PASID
    related code.


    Regards,

    Joerg

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