Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:43:49 +0200 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 03/16] iommu: introduce iommu invalidate API function |
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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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