[PATCH v5 0/7] mbuf dynamic field expansion

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Sun Oct 9 11:34:36 CEST 2022


07/10/2022 23:02, Shijith Thotton:
> This is a continuation of the discussions[1] to add mbuf physical address field to dynamic field.
> Previous version was to add PA field to dynamic field area based on the EAL IOVA mode option. It was
> deemed unsafe as some components could still use the PA field without checking IOVA mode and there
> are drivers which need PA to work. One suggestion was to make the IOVA mode check at compile time so
> that drivers which need PA can be disabled during build. This series adds this new meson build
> options. Fourth patch adds mbuf PA field to dynamic field on such builds. Last two patches enable
> Marvell cnxk PMDs and software PMDs in IOVA as PA disabled build as they work without PA field.

Applied, thanks.




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