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From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk@nvidia.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL)" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/4] doc: update instructions for running as non-root for MLX5
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:26:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BL1PR12MB5945149DEF5181394A41413CB9AF9@BL1PR12MB5945.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220607171347.43200cbe@hermes.local>

> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 3:14 AM
> [...]
> This change needs additional changes to make it correct English
> grammar.

Thank you for the useful comments to this and other patches.
I hope you don't mind that I took some sentences almost verbatim for v2.

> [...]
> > +This PMD does not require physical addresses,
> > +so capability configuration is not needed to access hugepages.
> 
> In technical writing "therefore" is preferred over "so"
> and you need a preposition. Please reword something like:
> 
> "This PMD does can operate without direct physical memory and
> hugepages
> are not required."
> 
> Often applications will keep using hugepages (makes them NIC
> independent)
> and in that case they would still need permissions.

MLX5 PMD uses hugepages but does not use physical addresses
unlike most other HW drivers.
I tried to make it more clear in v2.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-17 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20220607234949.2311884-1-dkozlyuk@nvidia.com>
2022-06-07 23:49 ` [PATCH 3/4] doc: give specific instructions for running as non-root Dmitry Kozlyuk
2022-06-08  0:03   ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-06-07 23:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] doc: update instructions for running as non-root for MLX5 Dmitry Kozlyuk
2022-06-08  0:13   ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-06-17 11:26     ` Dmitry Kozlyuk [this message]
     [not found] ` <20220617112508.3823291-1-dkozlyuk@nvidia.com>
2022-06-17 11:25   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] doc: give specific instructions for running as non-root Dmitry Kozlyuk
2022-06-17 16:38     ` Bruce Richardson
2022-06-20  6:10       ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2022-06-20  8:37         ` Bruce Richardson
2022-06-24  8:49           ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2022-06-17 11:25   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] doc: update instructions for running as non-root for MLX5 Dmitry Kozlyuk
     [not found]   ` <20220624084817.63145-1-dkozlyuk@nvidia.com>
2022-06-24  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 3/5] doc: give specific instructions for running as non-root Dmitry Kozlyuk
2022-06-24  9:09       ` Bruce Richardson
2022-06-24  8:48     ` [PATCH v3 4/5] doc: update instructions for running as non-root for MLX5 Dmitry Kozlyuk
     [not found]     ` <20220624131956.75160-1-dkozlyuk@nvidia.com>
2022-06-24 13:19       ` [PATCH v4 3/5] doc: give specific instructions for running as non-root Dmitry Kozlyuk
2022-06-24 13:19       ` [PATCH v4 4/5] doc: update instructions for running as non-root for MLX5 Dmitry Kozlyuk

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