AMD Hardware-Accelerated Virtualized IOMMU Patches Posted For Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Hardware-Accelerated Virtualized IOMMU Patches Posted For Linux

Following the recent AMD IOMMU v2 page table work and other IOMMU improvements as part of AMD's effort to further enhance the Linux virtualization support on EPYC server platforms, the latest patches out of AMD as of yesterday are for wokring on hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU (AMD HW-vIOMMU)...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HW-vIOMMU-Linux-Patches

[Danny3]

What about SR-IOV, will AMD ever enable that on consumer GPUs?

[timofonic]

What about SR-IOV, will AMD ever enable that on consumer GPUs?

I hope so. We tinkerers and student may be able to learn and use more AMD this way.

[polarathene]

What about SR-IOV, will AMD ever enable that on consumer GPUs?

Would you really need that once the native context support is ready?

That will allow multiple guests to use the AMD drivers and all get to use the GPU at the same time with near native performance. We'd probably see that arrive sooner I think.