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