Intel VT-d Scalable Mode Coming To Linux 4.21 - Makes Up Scalable I/O Virtualization

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Intel VT-d Scalable Mode Coming To Linux 4.21 - Makes Up Scalable I/O Virtualization

31 December 2018, 03:30 PM

Phoronix: Intel VT-d Scalable Mode Coming To Linux 4.21 - Makes Up Scalable I/O Virtualization

The IOMMU changes were sent in today for the Linux 4.21 kernel merge window. There are some AMD IOMMU improvements, new Qualcomm SMMUv2 IOMMU hardware support, NUMA-aware allocations in the IOMMU DMA code for some very slight performance benefits, and most notably is likely the scalable mode support within the Intel VT-d driver...

Intel VT-d Scalable Mode Coming To Linux 4.21 - Makes Up Scalable I/O Virtualization - Phoronix

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01 January 2019, 07:24 AM

Hopefully it wouldn't break anything AMD-V related
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