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On 01.05.2014 07:49, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> Agreed. Besides I hope the day won't come where we have to go through
> 2 layers of memory translation for the GPU...

That's actually the method of operation that gives us the best
performance. GPU likes big pages, and without IOMMU translation you'd
have a hard time finding enough contiguous physical memory.

Terje