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Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) means share process address spaces with devices. It is also called Shared Virtual Memory(SVM) by OpenCL and some IOMMU architectures. Sharing process address spaces with devices allows to rely on core kernel memory management for DMA, i.e. after apply SVA, device is able to perform DMA on buffers obtained with simple malloc by using the points it return, which highly remove some complexity from application and device drivers, especially when device DMA buffer use the advance data structure like list, tree or graph. Meanwhile, based on device’s IO page fault, the device can use memory on demand, which can reduce the use of memory.