[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/5] EAL: Add new EAL "--qtest-virtio" option

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Tue Feb 16 06:53:06 CET 2016


On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:40 AM, Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa at igel.co.jp> wrote:
> To work with qtest virtio-net PMD, virtual address that maps hugepages
> should be between (1 << 31) to (1 << 44). This patch adds one more option
> to map like this. Also all hugepages should consists of one file.
> Because of this, the option will work only when '--single-file' option is
> specified.

This patch is pure virtio stuff.
Please, rework this so that we have a generic api in eal (asking for a
free region could be of use for something else).
Then you can call this api from virtio pmd.

If you need to pass options to virtio pmd, add some devargs for it.


Thanks.

-- 
David Marchand


More information about the dev mailing list