Re: [dpdk-dev] eal/pci: Improve automatic selection of IOVA mode

2019-06-14 Thread David Marchand
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 6:44 PM Walker, Benjamin wrote: > On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 12:48 +0200, David Marchand wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 7:48 PM Ben Walker > wrote: > > > In SPDK, not all drivers are registered with DPDK at start up time. > > > Previously, that meant DPDK alw

Re: [dpdk-dev] eal/pci: Improve automatic selection of IOVA mode

2019-06-04 Thread Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
From: David Marchand Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 4:19 PM To: Ben Walker ; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran Cc: dev ; Burakov, Anatoly 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 d

Re: [dpdk-dev] eal/pci: Improve automatic selection of IOVA mode

2019-06-03 Thread Walker, Benjamin
On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 12:48 +0200, David Marchand wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 7:48 PM Ben Walker wrote: > > In SPDK, not all drivers are registered with DPDK at start up time. > > Previously, that meant DPDK always chose to set itself up in IOVA_PA > > mode. Instead, when the cor

Re: [dpdk-dev] eal/pci: Improve automatic selection of IOVA mode

2019-06-03 Thread David Marchand
Hello, On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 7:48 PM Ben Walker wrote: > In SPDK, not all drivers are registered with DPDK at start up time. > Previously, that meant DPDK always chose to set itself up in IOVA_PA > mode. Instead, when the correct iova choice is unclear based on the > devices and drivers known

[dpdk-dev] eal/pci: Improve automatic selection of IOVA mode

2019-05-30 Thread Ben Walker
In SPDK, not all drivers are registered with DPDK at start up time. Previously, that meant DPDK always chose to set itself up in IOVA_PA mode. Instead, when the correct iova choice is unclear based on the devices and drivers known to DPDK at start up time, use other heuristics (such as whether /pro