[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add notice to make DPDK IOVA aware

[Hemant Agrawal]

On 8/4/2017 9:11 AM, santosh wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 July 2017 03:31 PM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
>
>> When we run DPDK on guest or VFIO mode on host,
>> the dpdk library or device will not be directly accessing
>> the physical address. Instead, the device does go through
>> an IO address translation memory management unit. On x86,
>> we call it as IOMMU and on ARM as SMMU.
>>
>> More details:
>> http://osidays.com/osidays/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Final_OSI2014_IOMMU_DetailedView_Sanil_Anurup.pdf
>>
>> Based on discussion in the following thread
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-July/070850.html
>>
>> We would like to change reference to physical address to more
>> appropriate name as with IOMMU/SMMU with
>> the device won't be dealing directly with the physical address.
>>
>> An ABI change is planned for 17.11 to change following
>> data structure or functions to more appropriate name.
>> Currently planned to change it iova as instead of phys
>>
>> Please note: The change will be only for the name and
>> functional aspects of the API will remain same.
>>
>> Following functions/data structures name may change.
>> This list is based on v17.05-rc1. It may change based on v17.11 code base.
>>
>>
>> typedef:
>> phys_addr_t
>>
>> structures:
>>
>> struct rte_memseg::phys_addr
>> struct rte_mbuf::buf_physaddr
>>
>> functions:
>> rte_mempool_populate_phys()
>> rte_mempool_populate_phys_tab()
>> rte_eal_using_phys_addrs()
>> rte_mem_virt2phy()
>> rte_dump_physmem_layout()
>> rte_eal_get_physmem_layout()
>> rte_eal_get_physmem_size()
>> rte_malloc_virt2phy()
>> rte_mem_phy2mch()
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>
>> ---
>
> Acked-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com>
>
>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>