[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vfio: remove deprecated DMA mapping functions

[Damjan Marion (damarion)]

On 25 Oct 2019, at 14:23, Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov at intel.com<mailto:anatoly.burakov at intel.com>> wrote:

On 25-Oct-19 12:13 PM, Damjan Marion (damarion) wrote:
On 25 Oct 2019, at 00:32, Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net<mailto:thomas at monjalon.net>> wrote:

24/10/2019 21:09, David Marchand:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 2:18 PM Anatoly Burakov
<anatoly.burakov at intel.com<mailto:anatoly.burakov at intel.com>> wrote:

The rte_vfio_dma_map/unmap API's have been marked as deprecated in
release 19.05. Remove them.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com<mailto:anatoly.burakov at intel.com>>
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Notes:
   Although `rte_vfio_dma_map` et al. was marked as deprecated in our documentation,
   it wasn't marked as __rte_deprecated in code. Should we still remove it?

I can see that vpp is still using this api.
I would prefer we get some ack from their side.

Shahaf?
Ray?

Do you guys have contact with VPP devs?

+Cc Damjan
Thanks for looping me in. If I remember correctly that was used only to get mlx PMDs working.
We can remove that calls but then mlx PMDs will stop working unless there is alternative solution.
From my perspective it is not big issue as we already have native rdma based mlx support, but i would expect that other people will complain.
Is there alternative way to tell DPDK about DMA mapping?

The rte_vfio_container_dma_map(VFIO_DEFAULT_CONTAINER, ...) is the exact equivalent of the functions being removed. Also, rte_dev_dma_map() is supposed to be the more general DMA mapping API that works with VFIO and with any other bus/device-specific DMA mapping.

So yes, a simple search and replace for "rte_vfio_dma_(un)?map(" to "rte_vfio_container_dma_(un)?map(VFIO_DEFAULT_CONTAINER, " should trigger exactly the same behavior.

Done, will be merged after it passes verify jobs…

https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/22982

Thanks,

Damjan