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vIOMMU

AvailabilityAcceptance in the VIRTIO standardProposal for the standardDe facto standardImplementation statusIn QEMU / Linux kernelFOSSS in a GitHub RepoCommercial / closed-source implementationOther implementationsComplexity estimationPerformanceCode maturity
virtio-iommuYesNo (WIP)

Working draft 0.8 12 [1].

No

The device can handle attach/detach and map/unmap requests from a guest.

Not yet, patches submittedYes: kernel kernel (upstream since 5.3) [2], QEMU [3]
ARM SMMUv3 Emulation [4]Low/Medium

Low, see [5] page 21Low, see [5] page 23, arguable, needs testing

Medium


[1] http://jpbrucker.net/virtio-iommu/spec/virtio-iommu.pdf

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/772560/github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.3-rc6/drivers/iommu/virtio-iommu.c

[3] https://github.com/eauger/qemu/tree/v3.1v4.0-rc1-virtio-iommu-v0.8.112

[4] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/904249/

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