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

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Message-ID: <20171011121534.GG30803@8bytes.org>
Date:   Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:15:34 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>
Cc:     Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com>,
        "iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org" <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Wysocki, Rafael J" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@....com>,
        "Lan, Tianyu" <tianyu.lan@...el.com>,
        "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/16] iommu: introduce iommu invalidate API function

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