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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
To: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [EXT] Re: [PATCH] bus/pci: fix IOVA as VA mode selection
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 10:44:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef1779e4-f553-153c-062e-ce47f0293a2d@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR18MB2424D794776AD36FF9FAABADC8F60@BYAPR18MB2424.namprd18.prod.outlook.com>

On 08-Jul-19 8:13 PM, Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran wrote:
> See below,
> 
> Please send the email as text to avoid formatting issue.(No HTML)
> 
> From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 12:09 AM
> To: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>
> Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>; Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] bus/pci: fix IOVA as VA mode selection
> 
> ________________________________________
> 
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 4:25 PM <mailto:jerinj@marvell.com> wrote:
> From: Jerin Jacob <mailto:jerinj@marvell.com>
> 
> Existing logic fails to select IOVA mode as VA
> if driver request to enable IOVA as VA.
> 
> IOVA as VA has more strict requirement than other modes,
> so enabling positive logic for IOVA as VA selection.
> 
> This patch also updates the default IOVA mode as PA
> for PCI devices as it has to deal with DMA engines unlike
> the virtual devices that may need only IOVA as DC.
> 
> We have three cases:
> - driver/hw supports IOVA as PA only
> 
> [Jerin] It is not driver cap, it is more of system cap(IOMMU vs non  IOMMU). We are already addressing that case

I don't get how this works. How does "system capability" affect what the 
device itself supports? Are we to assume that *all* hardware support 
IOVA as VA by default? "System capability" is more of a bus issue than 
an individual device issue, is it not?

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-09  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-08 14:24 [dpdk-dev] " jerinj
2019-07-08 18:39 ` David Marchand
2019-07-08 19:13   ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-09  8:39     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-07-09  9:05       ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-09  9:32         ` Bruce Richardson
2019-07-09  9:44     ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message]
2019-07-09 11:13       ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-09 11:40         ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-09 12:11           ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-09 13:30             ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-09 13:50               ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-09 14:19                 ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-09 14:00               ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-09 14:37                 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-09 15:04                   ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-09 15:06                     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-09 17:50                   ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-10  8:09                     ` David Marchand
2019-07-09 14:54                 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-09 14:58                   ` Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2019-07-09 15:02                     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-09 15:12                       ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-09 15:18                         ` Burakov, Anatoly

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