Re: [Intel IOMMU 00/10] Intel IOMMU support, take #2

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:37:01 -0700 "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 	This patch supports the upcomming Intel IOMMU hardware
> a.k.a. Intel(R) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O 
> Architecture

So...  what's all this code for?

I assume that the intent here is to speed things up under Xen, etc?  Do we
have any benchmark results to help us to decide whether a merge would be
justified?

Does it slow anything down?
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