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Date: 21 Mar 2008 16:55:51 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: iommu: it could use some documentation
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:
>
> > + iommu= [x86]
> > + off
> > + force
> > + noforce
> > + biomerge
> > + panic
> > + nopanic
> > + merge
> > + nomerge
> > + forcesac
> > + soft
>
> these are mostly quirks to get boards booting
Actually no. Except perhaps for iommu=soft none of them is related
to any hardware issues. They all tune various performance trade offs
and were supplied for performance tuning originally.
-Andi
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