From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] vfio: Support for no-IOMMU mode
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:40:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2132629.COtjSkm5oU@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C6ECDF3AB251BE4894318F4E45123697820C5479@IRSMSX109.ger.corp.intel.com>
2016-01-28 14:16, Burakov, Anatoly:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> > 2016-01-28 11:57, Anatoly Burakov:
> > > +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(4, 5, 0)
> >
> > Why not #ifndef VFIO_NOIOMMU_IOMMU?
> > It would avoid some backport issue.
>
> I don't see how it could. Versions post-4.5 will have VFIO_NOIOMMU_IOMMU, so no issue there. Pre-4.5 versions, whether they do or do not have VFIO_NOIOMMU_IOMMU defined, will have RTE_VFIO_NOIOMMU defined as 8 regardless.
Are we sure it will ever be backported as 8?
Anyway I think it's better to avoid version number checks.
What happens if the feature is reverted from 4.5 as it was from 4.4?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-28 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-21 20:16 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Anatoly Burakov
2016-01-13 12:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Anatoly Burakov
2016-01-13 16:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-01-14 9:50 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2016-01-27 9:05 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-27 10:08 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2016-01-27 10:12 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-27 10:24 ` David Marchand
2016-01-27 10:29 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2016-01-27 14:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Anatoly Burakov
2016-01-27 14:23 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2016-01-27 14:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Anatoly Burakov
2016-01-27 15:50 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-27 16:01 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2016-01-27 16:30 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2016-01-27 16:50 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Anatoly Burakov
2016-01-27 17:07 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-28 10:03 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2016-01-28 13:27 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-28 11:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Anatoly Burakov
2016-01-28 13:58 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-28 14:16 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2016-01-28 14:40 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-01-28 15:00 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2016-01-28 16:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
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