|WARNING| pw106987 [PATCH] [v3, 1/1] vhost: integrate dmadev in asynchronous data-path

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Test-Label: iol-testing
Test-Status: WARNING
http://dpdk.org/patch/106987

_apply patch failure_

Submitter: Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu@intel.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 08 2022 10:40:31 
Applied on: CommitID:0e4dc6af06228c8504a5538512cb31ed7bf6cc23
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  Called to get the notify area info of the queue.

Recommended IOVA mode in async datapath
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error: patch failed: doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst:443
error: while searching for:
For PA mode, page by page mapping may exceed IOMMU's max capability,
better to use 1G guest hugepage.

For uio driver, any vfio related error message can be ignored.
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diff a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst	(rejected hunks)
@@ -443,6 +415,29 @@ Finally, a set of device ops is defined for device specific operations:
 
   Called to get the notify area info of the queue.
 
+Vhost asynchronous data path
+----------------------------
+
+Vhost asynchronous data path leverages DMA devices to offload memory
+copies from the CPU and it is implemented in an asynchronous way. It
+enables applications, like OVS, to save CPU cycles and hide memory copy
+overhead, thus achieving higher throughput.
+
+Vhost doesn't manage DMA devices and applications, like OVS, need to
+manage and configure DMA devices. Applications need to tell vhost what
+DMA devices to use in every data path function call. This design enables
+the flexibility for applications to dynamically use DMA channels in
+different function modules, not limited in vhost.
+
+In addition, vhost supports M:N mapping between vrings and DMA virtual
+channels. Specifically, one vring can use multiple different DMA channels
+and one DMA channel can be shared by multiple vrings at the same time.
+The reason of enabling one vring to use multiple DMA channels is that
+it's possible that more than one dataplane threads enqueue packets to
+the same vring with their own DMA virtual channels. Besides, the number
+of DMA devices is limited. For the purpose of scaling, it's necessary to
+support sharing DMA channels among vrings.
+
 Recommended IOVA mode in async datapath
 ---------------------------------------
 
@@ -450,4 +445,4 @@ When DMA devices are bound to vfio driver, VA mode is recommended.
 For PA mode, page by page mapping may exceed IOMMU's max capability,
 better to use 1G guest hugepage.
 
-For uio driver, any vfio related error message can be ignored.
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+For uio driver, any vfio related error message can be ignored.

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