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From: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	"eric.zhang@windriver.com" <eric.zhang@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] eal/pci: Improve automatic selection of IOVA mode
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 11:28:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BYAPR18MB242430ECC3D54A06B66FFB9CC8150@BYAPR18MB2424.namprd18.prod.outlook.com> (raw)


From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 4:19 PM
To: Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] eal/pci: Improve automatic selection of IOVA mode


> - This leaves the --iova-va forcing option. 
> Why do we need it?
> If we don't have access to physical addresses, no choice but run in VA mode.
> If we have access to physical addresses, the only case would be that you want to downgrade from PA to VA.
> But well, your process can still access it, not sure what the benefit is.


> Jerin, I can see in the history you worked on this.
> What did I miss?
> Is there something wrong with dropping the detection code?

Its added by Eric to support virtual devices.

https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-September/111141.html




             reply	other threads:[~2019-06-04 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-04 11:28 Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-05-30 17:48 Ben Walker
2019-06-03 10:48 ` David Marchand
2019-06-03 16:44   ` Walker, Benjamin
2019-06-14  8:42     ` David Marchand

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