From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>,
jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com
Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: disable IOVA mode detection by default
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:11:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d301e88e-64c8-82de-9b8d-4d16c21d44c0@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79461063.5rUd41U7jB@xps>
On 11/1/2017 3:31 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 01/11/2017 02:07, Ferruh Yigit:
>> Fix kernel crash with KNI because KNI requires physical addresses.
>>
>> A config option introduced to disable IOVA mode detection and to set it
>> to physical address by default. Disabling config option will enable IOVA
>> mode detection.
>>
>> When there is no intension to use KNI, it is safe to enable detection.
>>
>> Config option disable IOVA mode detection by default to be sure only who
>> is aware of result enable it.
>>
>> Fixes: 72d013644bd6 ("mem: honor IOVA mode in malloc virt2phy")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
>> ---
>> +#ifdef RTE_EAL_USE_PHYS_IOVA
>> + rte_eal_get_configuration()->iova_mode = RTE_IOVA_PA;
>> +#else
>> /* autodetect the iova mapping mode (default is iova_pa) */
>> rte_eal_get_configuration()->iova_mode = rte_bus_get_iommu_class();
>> +#endif
>
> I don't understand why you are adding a compile-time option.
> I think it should be an EAL option --use-phys-addr.
> The opposite option may be required to force VA: --use-virt-addr.
> And if there is no option given, we fallback to autodetect.
It was to have old behavior by default without doing anything special, so that
previous KNI applications can continue to run as it is.
> We can improve the autodetect by checking whether rte_kni.ko is loaded.
>
> Opinions?
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-01 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-01 1:07 Ferruh Yigit
2017-11-01 2:17 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-11-01 6:32 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-11-01 6:37 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-11-01 7:29 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-11-01 7:55 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-11-01 3:54 ` santosh
2017-11-01 4:02 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-11-01 6:21 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-11-01 6:54 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-11-01 7:39 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-11-01 8:26 ` Jerin Jacob
2017-11-01 8:53 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-11-01 18:31 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-11-01 8:12 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-11-01 10:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-11-01 11:06 ` santosh
2017-11-01 18:22 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-11-01 18:11 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
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