From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
Cc: "thomas@monjalon.net" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
"david.marchand@redhat.com" <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] eal: select IOVA mode as VA for default case
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:38:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <396d1f20-4b21-776d-6939-7073b9a7ec40@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR18MB24240673CDB8AC7448A62320C8C90@BYAPR18MB2424.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>
On 17-Jul-19 9:33 AM, Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 8:03 PM
>> To: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>; dev@dpdk.org; John
>> McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; Marko Kovacevic
>> <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
>> Cc: thomas@monjalon.net; david.marchand@redhat.com
>> Subject: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] eal: select IOVA mode as VA for
>> default case
>>
>> On 16-Jul-19 2:46 PM, jerinj@marvell.com wrote:
>>> From: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
>>>
>>> When bus layer selected the preferred mode as RTE_IOVA_DC then select
>>> the IOVA mode as RTE_IOVA_VA.
>>>
>>> The RTE_IOVA_VA selected as the default because,
>>>
>>> 1) All drivers work in RTE_IOVA_VA mode, irrespective of physical
>>> address availability.
>>>
>>> 2) By default, the mempool, first asks for IOVA-contiguous memory
>>> using RTE_MEMZONE_IOVA_CONTIG and this is slow in IOVA as PA mode
>> and
>>> it may affect the application boot time.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> I should celebrate now :D
>>
>>> doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst | 10 ++++++++--
>>> lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c | 6 ++----
>>> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
>>> b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
>>> index 77307e3a6..1b0343eee 100644
>>> --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
>>> +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
>>> @@ -445,8 +445,14 @@ kernels.
>>> - if the preferred mode is RTE_IOVA_PA but there is no access to Physical
>>> Addresses, then EAL init will fail early, since later probing of the devices
>>> would fail anyway,
>>> -- if the preferred mode is RTE_IOVA_DC then based on the Physical
>>> Addresses
>>> - availability, the preferred mode is adjusted to RTE_IOVA_PA or
>> RTE_IOVA_VA.
>>> +- if the preferred mode is RTE_IOVA_DC then select the IOVA mode as
>> RTE_IOVA_VA.
>>> + The RTE_IOVA_VA selected as the default because,
>>> +
>>> +#. All drivers work in RTE_IOVA_VA mode, irrespective of physical address
>> availability.
>>
>> Is there anywhere we can document that any new driver must support both
>> before being accepted?
>
> Not sure why new drivers need to support both PA and VA. Do you mean VA?
> And not sure where to document this as well if need.
We have a flaf that indicates that the driver needs IOVA as VA. Absence
of said flag indicates that it supports both IOVA as VA and IOVA as PA.
So, absent of this flag, any new driver must support both PA and VA,
must it not?
>
>>
>>> +
>>> +#. By default, the mempool, first asks for IOVA-contiguous memory using
>> ``RTE_MEMZONE_IOVA_CONTIG``,
>>> + and this is slow in IOVA as PA mode and it may affect the application
>> boot time.
>>
>> I would also add a point about usability improvement for use-cases which
>> require large amounts of IOVA-contiguous memory.
>
> I will add in next version:
> How about the following, Let me know if any change required.
>
> #. It is easy to enable large amount of IOVA-contiguous memory use-cases with IOVA in VA mode.
Yes, that looks OK.
>
>>
>> Otherwise,
>>
>> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
--
Thanks,
Anatoly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-17 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-10 21:48 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Fixes on IOVA mode selection David Marchand
2019-07-10 21:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Revert "bus/pci: add Mellanox kernel driver type" David Marchand
2019-07-16 10:37 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-10 21:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: fix IOVA mode selection as VA for pci drivers David Marchand
2019-07-11 14:40 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-12 8:05 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-12 11:03 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-12 12:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-12 12:58 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-12 13:19 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-07-15 14:26 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-15 15:03 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-15 15:35 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-15 16:06 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-15 16:27 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-16 13:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] Fixes on IOVA mode selection jerinj
2019-07-16 13:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] Revert "bus/pci: add Mellanox kernel driver type" jerinj
2019-07-16 13:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] eal: fix IOVA mode selection as VA for pci drivers jerinj
2019-07-16 14:26 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-16 15:07 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-16 13:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] eal: change RTE_PCI_DRV_IOVA_AS_VA flag name jerinj
2019-07-16 13:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] eal: select IOVA mode as VA for default case jerinj
2019-07-16 14:33 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-17 8:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-17 12:38 ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2019-07-17 14:04 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-18 6:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Fixes on IOVA mode selection jerinj
2019-07-18 6:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/4] Revert "bus/pci: add Mellanox kernel driver type" jerinj
2019-07-18 6:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/4] eal: fix IOVA mode selection as VA for pci drivers jerinj
2019-07-18 6:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/4] eal: change RTE_PCI_DRV_IOVA_AS_VA flag name jerinj
2019-07-18 6:45 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/4] eal: select IOVA mode as VA for default case jerinj
2019-07-22 11:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/4] Fixes on IOVA mode selection David Marchand
2019-07-22 12:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 " David Marchand
2019-07-22 12:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/4] Revert "bus/pci: add Mellanox kernel driver type" David Marchand
2019-07-22 12:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/4] eal: fix IOVA mode selection as VA for PCI drivers David Marchand
2019-11-25 9:33 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-11-25 10:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-11-25 12:03 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-11-25 12:36 ` David Marchand
2019-11-25 12:58 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-11-25 14:29 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-11-25 11:07 ` Jerin Jacob
2019-07-22 12:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/4] drivers: change IOVA as VA PCI flag name David Marchand
2019-07-22 12:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/4] eal: select IOVA as VA mode for default case David Marchand
2019-07-22 15:53 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/4] Fixes on IOVA mode selection Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-23 3:35 ` Stojaczyk, Dariusz
2019-07-23 4:18 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-23 4:54 ` Stojaczyk, Dariusz
2019-07-23 5:27 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-23 7:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-23 9:57 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-23 10:25 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-23 13:56 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-23 14:24 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-23 14:29 ` [dpdk-dev] " Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-23 14:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-23 15:47 ` Burakov, Anatoly
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