iommu non-strict mode for arm64
From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Fri Feb 04 2022 - 00:46:38 EST
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?
--
Josh