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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] bus/pci: support iova=va on PowerNV systems
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:54:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8xf401oRK8QCoaTsewu-N5ywdYc=RwzNfVnCKv6p-7sWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200316203828.27279-1-drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 9:38 PM David Christensen
<drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> All recent POWER systems, Power 8 and 9 specifically, support an IOMMU
> (it can't be disabled). The functionality of the IOMMU is different
> depending on whether it's running on a bare metal PowerNV system or in
> a virtual environment (PowerVM LPAR or KVM/QEMU).  DPDK currently
> supports the IOMMU found on PowerNV platforms, sPAPRv2, so IOVA=VA
> mode can be enabled when the correct platform is detected.
>
> The POWER IOMMU type can't be detected through mechansims such as

mechanisms

> parsing files in the /sys heirarchy like x86_64 systems so the

hierarchy


> /proc/cpuinfo file is parsed to determine whether Linux is running
> on bare metal (i.e. PowerNV) or in a virtual environment (KVM/QEMU).
>
> Signed-off-by: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied, thanks.


-- 
David Marchand


      reply	other threads:[~2020-04-25 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-26 19:50 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " David Christensen
2020-03-13  9:09 ` David Marchand
2020-03-16 16:09   ` David Christensen
2020-03-16 20:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " David Christensen
2020-04-25 14:54   ` David Marchand [this message]

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