[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] eal: add eal option to configure iova mode

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Tue Oct 2 10:30:41 CEST 2018


On 10/1/2018 5:00 PM, Eric Zhang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/26/2018 08:42 AM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
>> On 18-Sep-18 8:10 PM, eric zhang wrote:
>>> From: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com>
>>>
>>> In the case of user don't want to use bus iova scheme and want
>>> to override.
>>>
>>> For that, Adding eal option --iova-mode=<string> where valid input
>>> string is 'pa' or 'va'.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> Needs documentation update in Programmer's Guide to explain why such a 
>> thing might be needed, and update EAL parameter guides.
>>
>> For the patch itself,
>> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> Thanks Anatoly. Documentations were updated and patch is at 
> http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/45785/. Would you please give a review?

I suggest sending a new version of this patchset with that patch included,
instead of two separate patches.
Makes life easy for people that needs to follow that dependency and good for
keeping record for future.


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