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

[Thomas Monjalon]

11/07/2019 00:18, 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/

The revert is applied on master now.

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

Please did you investigate what happened?