[PATCH] doc/dmadevs: add note clarifying naming of idxd devices

[Varghese, Vipin]

[AMD Official Use Only - General]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 9:49 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Varghese, Vipin <Vipin.Varghese at amd.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc/dmadevs: add note clarifying naming of idxd devices
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> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 05:16:29PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Since the test-dma-perf application identifies devices by name,
> > include in the idxd driver documentation a note on device naming when
> vfio-pci.
> > See also discussion in bugzilla[1].
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1268
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > ---
> Note, although I reference bugzilla here, I don't consider this a bugfix, so I've
> not included a fixes tag and official bugzilla id etc. It's instead a note clarifying
> the expected behaviour.

App/dma-perf got integrated into DPDK via `https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230629131455.52732-1-cheng1.jiang@intel.com/`. The expectation is that, it is tried and tested for hardware dma, sw skeleton dma and cpu memcpy.
Happy to acknowledge the change as it helps the DPDK community.

Acked-by: Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese at amd.com>

>
> /Bruce