Re: iommu non-strict mode for arm64

2022-02-04 Thread Robin Murphy
On 2022-02-04 05:46, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: Hi all, We've gotten significant slowdowns on arm64 with 4k pages compared to 64k. The slowdowns can be alleviated by setting iommu.strict=0 or iommu.passthrough=1. Is there a reason x86 defaults to lazy iommu, while arm64 does not? Are there

iommu non-strict mode for arm64

2022-02-03 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
Hi all, We've gotten significant slowdowns on arm64 with 4k pages compared to 64k. The slowdowns can be alleviated by setting iommu.strict=0 or iommu.passthrough=1. Is there a reason x86 defaults to lazy iommu, while arm64 does not? Are there security implications which are specific to arm64?