Re: [PATCH ACS v3 1/1]

From: Chris Wright
Date: Wed Sep 30 2009 - 21:17:37 EST


* Kay, Allen M (allen.m.kay@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On the other hand, can we say VT-d PT mode is mainly for KVM
> virtualization use case? If so, is it reasonable to say performance of
> host P2P in this mode is not of highest priority?

Guess it depends on the workload. Would be helpful to identify a use
case that is p2p heavy (and then the impact of enabling ACS).

> If not, another option is to have a kernel boot parameter to
> configure an kernel boot instance to be either host kernel optimized or
> virtualization optimized. I don't know whether this is a reasonable or
> not ...

I was thinking that ACS could be enabled if an IOMMU is enabled. Not a
perfect fit, but seems reasonably close.

thanks,
-chris
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