[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 08/11] eal: pci: introduce RTE_KDRV_VFIO_NOIOMMUi driver mode

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-01-27 21:02, Santosh Shukla:
> 1. virtio currently works for vfio+noiommu and likely will work for
> vfio+iommu in near future.
> 2. So remove __noiommu suffix and always use default.
> 3. Introduce vfio resource parsing global function, That function
> suppose to do parsing for default vfio case and for vfio-noiommu case.
> This function will be used by pmd drivers for resource parsing purpose
> example virtio.
> 
> Yuan won't be happy with 3) I guess, because he wanted to get rid of
> interface parsing from pmd driver.
> 
> Thomas, if 1/2/3/ addresses your concern then I'll spin the series,

I agree with 1/ and 2/.
Please, could you explain why 3/ is needed?