[dpdk-dev] Why do we need iommu=pt?

Shivapriya Hiremath shivpri.b at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 23:58:54 CEST 2014


Hi,

My question is that if the Poll mode  driver used the DMA kernel interface
to set up its mappings appropriately, would it still require that iommu=pt
be set?
What is the purpose of setting iommu=pt ?

Thank you.


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