[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 11/12] mempool: honor iova mode in virt2phy

[Thomas Monjalon]

10/07/2017 15:30, santosh:
> Hi Olivier,
> 
> On Monday 10 July 2017 05:57 PM, Olivier Matz wrote:
> > I didn't check the patchset in detail, but in my understanding,
> > what we call physaddr in dpdk is actually a bus address. Shouldn't
> > we start to rename some of these fields and functions to avoid
> > confusion?
> 
> Agree.
> While working on iova mode thing and reading these vir2phy api -
> confused me more. Actually it should be iova2va, va2iova or pa2iova,iova2pa..
> where iova address is nothing but bus address Or we should refer to linux
> semantics.
> 
> We thought of addressing semantics after this series, Not a priority in IMO.

I think it is a priority to start with semantics.
The work is too hard with wrong semantic otherwise.