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On 2019/7/10 下午3:22, Jason Wang wrote:
>> Yeah, that's a major concern. If it's true, is it something
>> that's not acceptable?
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> I think not, but I don't know if any other one that care this.
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>>> And I do see some new RFC for VFIO to add more DMA API.
>> Is there any pointers?
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> I don't remember the details, but it should be something related to 
> SVA support in recent intel IOMMU.


E.g this series:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/iommu/msg37146.html

Thanks