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

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Wed Oct 11 2017 - 08:15:40 EST


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:54:52AM +0000, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> I didn't quite get 'iovm' mean. Can you explain a bit about the idea?

It's short for IO Virtual Memory, basically a replacement term for 'svm'
that is not ambiguous (afaik) and not specific to Intel.


Joerg