On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 14:15 -0800, Shaohua Li wrote:

> > I'm reluctant to change that. If it hurts you, kick your system
> > vendor until they stop doing stupid things with RMRRs.
> 
> Hmm, yes, it's a device with RMRR. Don't think we can ask vendor to
> stop it though.

Get a new vendor?

> I'd really like an option to avoid the penality for RMRR devices. 

RMRR devices should just die. It's insanely stupid in almost all cases.

> Would a new option like 'iommu=strictpt' work?

Which does what? Forces passthrough in *all* cases, even when it then
has to use SWIOTLB?

I would much prefer to just accept that RMRR-afflicted devices are
crippled.

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dwmw2

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