[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] eal/linux: select iova-mode va with no-huge option
Jerin Jacob
jerinjacobk at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 14:24:56 CET 2020
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 4:22 AM David Wilder <dwilder at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> If --no-huge is set and iova-mode has not been specified force VA mode.
> If --no-huge and --iova-mode=PA is requested error out as this is
> an impossible configuration.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder at us.ibm.com>
> ---
> lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c
> index 9530ee55f..d3a0a1731 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c
> @@ -1062,9 +1062,16 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
>
> /* if no EAL option "--iova-mode=<pa|va>", use bus IOVA scheme */
> if (internal_config.iova_mode == RTE_IOVA_DC) {
> +
> /* autodetect the IOVA mapping mode */
> enum rte_iova_mode iova_mode = rte_bus_get_iommu_class();
>
> + if (iova_mode == RTE_IOVA_PA && !rte_eal_has_hugepages()) {
> + iova_mode = RTE_IOVA_VA;
What if igb_uio or vfio_nommu has been loaded(i.e no iommu support
enabled from the driver)? This would fail.
> + RTE_LOG(WARNING, EAL, "Some buses want 'PA' but forcing 'VA' because --no-huge is requested.\n");
> + RTE_LOG(WARNING, EAL, "Not all buses may be able to initialize.\n");
> + }
> +
> if (iova_mode == RTE_IOVA_DC) {
> RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "Buses did not request a specific IOVA mode.\n");
>
> @@ -1111,6 +1118,13 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
> internal_config.iova_mode;
> }
>
> + if (rte_eal_iova_mode() == RTE_IOVA_PA &&
> + rte_eal_has_hugepages() == 0) {
> + rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot use IOVA as 'PA' with --no-huge");
Top of the tree already detecting this case. am I missing anything?
[master]dell[dpdk.org] $ sudo ./build/app/test/dpdk-test -c 0x3
--no-huge --iova-mode=pa
EAL: Detected 56 lcore(s)
EAL: Detected 2 NUMA nodes
EAL: Static memory layout is selected, amount of reserved memory can
be adjusted with -m or --socket-mem
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
EAL: FATAL: Cannot use IOVA as 'PA' since physical addresses are not available
EAL: Cannot use IOVA as 'PA' since physical addresses are not available
> + rte_errno = EINVAL;
> + return -1;
> + }
> +
> if (rte_eal_iova_mode() == RTE_IOVA_PA && !phys_addrs) {
> rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot use IOVA as 'PA' since physical addresses are not available");
> rte_errno = EINVAL;
> --
> 2.25.0
>
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