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Prioritize TPH
Use this feature to enable Prioritize TPH support. The options are Enable and
Disable.
Relaxed Ordering
Select Enable to enable Relaxed Ordering support, which will allow certain transac-
tions to violate the strict-ordering rules of PCI bus for a transaction to be completed
prior to other transactions that have already been enqueued. The options are
Disable
and Enable.
Intel
®
VT for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel
®
VT for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Select Enable to use Intel Virtualization Technology for Direct I/O VT-d support
by
reporting the I/O device assignments to the VMM (Virtual Machine Monitor) through
the DMAR ACPI tables. This feature offers fully-protected I/O resource sharing across
Intel platforms, providing greater reliability, security and availability in networking and
data-sharing. The options are
Enable
and
Disable.
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If the feature above is set to Enable, the five features below will be available
for configuration:
Interrupt Remapping
Use this feature to enable Interrupt Remapping support, which detects and controls
external interrupt requests. The options are
Enable
and Disable.
PassThrough DMA
Use this feature to allow devices such as network cards to access the system memory
without using a processor. Select Enable to use the Non-Isoch VT_D Engine Pass
Through Direct Memory Access (DMA) support. The options are
Enable
and Disable.
ATS
Use this feature to enable Non-Isoch VT-d Engine Address Translation Services (ATS)
support. ATS translates virtual addresses to physical addresses. The options are
En-
able
and Disable.
Posted Interrupt
Use this feature to enable VT_D Posted Interrupt. The options are
Enable
and Disable.
Coherency Support (Non-Isoch)
Use this feature to maintain setting coherency between processors or other devices.
Select Enable for the Non-Isoch VT-d engine to pass through DMA to enhance system
performance. The options are
Enable
and Disable.
