[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] doc: Clarify IOMMU usage with "uio_pci_generic" kernel module

[Tone Zhang (Arm Technology China)]

Hello Bruce,

Thanks for the comments.

I will update the change and issue v5 soon.

Thanks!

Br,
Tone

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> 
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2018 7:20 PM
To: Tone Zhang (Arm Technology China) <Tone.Zhang at arm.com>
Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China) <Gavin.Hu at arm.com>; bluca at debian.org; roszenrami at gmail.com; Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>; nd <nd at arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] doc: Clarify IOMMU usage with "uio_pci_generic" kernel module

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:07:42AM +0800, tone.zhang wrote:
> If the devices used for DPDK are bound to the "uio_pci_generic" kernel 
> module, the IOMMU should be disabled in order not to break the IO 
> transmission because of the virtual / physical address mapping.
> 
> The patch clarifies the IOMMU configurations on both x86_64 and arm64 
> systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: tone.zhang <tone.zhang at arm.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst 
> b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
> index 371a817..3304800 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
> @@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ be loaded as shown below:
>     ``vfio-pci`` kernel module rather than ``igb_uio`` or ``uio_pci_generic``.
>     For more details see :ref:`linux_gsg_binding_kernel` below.
>  
> +.. note::
> +
> +   If the devices used for DPDK are bound to the ``uio_pci_generic`` kernel module,
> +   please make sure that the IOMMU is disabledi or passthrough. One 
> + can add
typo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

> +   ``intel_iommu=off`` or ``amd_iommu=off`` or ``intel_iommu=on iommu=pt``in GRUB
> +   command line on x86_64 systems, or add ``iommu.passthrough=1`` on arm64 system.
> +
>  Since DPDK release 1.7 onward provides VFIO support, use of UIO is 
> optional  for platforms that support using VFIO.
>  
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>