[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Revert "net/mlx: support IOVA VA mode"

[Thomas Monjalon]

09/07/2019 16:39, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Fri,  7 Jun 2019 16:08:41 -0700
> Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> > 
> > This reverts commit 69c06d0e357ed0064b498d510d169603cf7308cd.
> > That commit breaks support for netvsc PMD with MLX SRIOV
> > on both Hyper-V and Azure.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> 
> DPDK 19.08-rc is broken on Azure. This patch which seems to have been
> ignored fixes it.

This patch was not ignored. I was waiting for the IOVA changes
to settle down. As a result, the revert will happen because the
type RTE_KDRV_NIC_MLX is not needed anymore:
	https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/56314/

However, I don't understand how it is related to netvsc PMD.
Please could you give more details?