Re: [PATCH v2 03/16] iommu: introduce iommu invalidate API function

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Thu Oct 12 2017 - 03:43:58 EST


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