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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ga=EBtan?= Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>,
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:27:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] bus/pci: fix vfio mode
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30/10/2017 10:17, Ga=EBtan Rivet:
> Hi Ferruh,
>=20
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 02:00:43AM -0700, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > On 10/30/2017 1:06 AM, Ga=EBtan Rivet wrote:
> > > Hi Jerin,
> > >=20
> > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 11:50:52AM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> > >> The definition of VFIO_PRESENT is "eal_vfio.h", Fail to
> > >> include eal_vfio.h will result in disabling vfio.
> > >>
> > >> Fixes: 279b581c897d ("vfio: expose functions")
> > >>
> > >=20
> > > Thanks for the fix, sorry for VFIO.
> > > I tried to let go of VFIO_PRESENT in the PCI patchset, unfortunately =
I did
> > > not do a good-enough job.
> > >=20
> > > Instead of reinstating the dependency on the private eal_vfio.h heade=
r,
> > > I'd suggest replacing all VFIO_PRESENT references within the PCI bus =
by
> > > RTE_EAL_VFIO, and make the pci_vfio.c compilation depend on it within
> > > the linux Makefile. Something like:
> > >=20
> > > ---8<---
> > >=20
> > > grep -rl VFIO_PRESENT drivers/bus/pci/linux/ |while read -r file
> > > do sed -i 's;VFIO_PRESENT;RTE_EAL_VFIO;' $file
> > > done
> >=20
> > VFIO_PRESENT is the combination of the if user enabled VFIO and if Linu=
x kernel
> > supports it.
> >=20
> > Why not add same check and VFIO_PRESENT definition to rte_vfio.h:
> >=20
> > --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_vfio.h
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_vfio.h
> > @@ -34,7 +34,13 @@
> > #ifndef _RTE_VFIO_H_
> > #define _RTE_VFIO_H_
> >=20
> > +#if !defined(VFIO_PRESENT) && defined(RTE_EAL_VFIO)
> > +#include <linux/version.h>
> > +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >=3D KERNEL_VERSION(3, 6, 0)
> > #include <linux/vfio.h>
> > +#define VFIO_PRESENT
> > +#endif /* >=3D 3.6.0 */
> > +#endif
> > +
> > +#ifdef VFIO_PRESENT
> >=20
> > ... Need to wrap here in case VFIO disabled ...
> >=20
> > #endif
> >=20
>=20
> It would work indeed.
>=20
> I mostly dislike having whole compilation units disabled silently on a
> linux version check. I think that if someone wanted to support kernels <
> 3.6, they ought to do the work of disabling RTE_EAL_VFIO.
>=20
> A build error could be thrown to help those users toward the right
> solution, but I think that the meaning of having this option enabled
> should be enforced: if it is enabled, it is compiled. If dependencies
> are not met, then the option should be disabled.
+1 to avoid implicit disabling.