Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/iommu: use __GFP_ZERO instead of memset forGART

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Sun Sep 28 2008 - 14:07:38 EST


On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:18:55 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> another thing:
>
> How hard would it be to add an CONFIG_IOMMU_DEBUG option that forces as
> many DMA requests to go via the IOMMU as possible?
>
> This slows things down of course so it's only for debugging - but it
> also makes sure that we utilize the IOMMU code to the maximum - which is
> not normally the case.

If you use iommu=force boot option, GART always tries to use the
IOMMU.
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