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Thank you for the reply Stephen. Safety and protection issues aside, do
uio_pci_generic and igb_uio have the functionality to support IOMMU?

Thanks


On Jul 19, 2017 12:04, "Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 11:31:28 -0700
edin burgh <edin.burgh.2357@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I wanted to know if igb_uio or uio_pci_generic has support for IOMMU on
x86
> systems.

If you have an IOMMU, use VFIO. igb_uio and uio_pci_generic are unsafe and
provide
no memory protection.