[dpdk-dev] Regarding MMIO

Venkateswara Rao Dokku dvrao.584 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 06:40:32 CEST 2015


Thanks for the response Stephen.

Are you referring to Virt-IO 0.9 in specific here in the response or for
any Virt-IO versions in general?

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Stephen Hemminger <
stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 09:51:42 +0530
> Venkateswara Rao Dokku <dvrao.584 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > If we go through the DPDK code it is observed that we are using MMIO for
> > Virt-IO devices. But in the Virt-IO specification, it is written that
> from
> > Virt-IO 1.0 onwards only they are supporting MMIO, all previous versions
> > uses Port IO for RX/TX notifications.
> >
> > So, If I use VirtIO 0.9, Can I get the MMIO based notifications for RX/TX
> > or is it supported only for Virt-IO 1.0 onwards?
> >
>
> Although the virtio device will bind to the mmio address in some cases,
> it does not use that. It uses i/o port access (see iopl) to activate
> host.
>



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Thanks & Regards,
Venkateswara Rao Dokku.


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