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From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 01:48:00PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> I wonder if SVM originated in OpenCL first, rather than intel? That's why
> I'm using it, but it is ambiguous. I'm not sure IOVM is precise enough
> though, since the name could as well be used without shared tables, for
> classical map/unmap and IOVAs. Kevin Tian suggested SVA "Shared Virtual
> Addressing" last time, which is a little more clear than SVM and isn't
> used elsewhere in the kernel either.

SVA sounds even better. Feel free to use that for all the PRI/PASID
related code.


Regards,

	Joerg