[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] virtio support for container

Xie, Huawei huawei.xie at intel.com
Wed Jan 20 04:48:07 CET 2016


On 1/12/2016 1:37 PM, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
> Hi Jianfeng and Xie,
>
> I guess my implementation and yours have a lot of common code, so I will
> try to rebase my patch on yours.
>
> BTW, one thing I need to change your memory allocation way is that
> mmaped address should be under 44bit(32 + PAGE_SHIFT) to work with my patch.
> This is because VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_PFN register only accepts such address.
> (I may need to add one more EAL parameter like "--mmap-under <address>")

I believe it is OK to mmap under 44bit, but better check the user space
address space layout.

>
> Thanks,
> Tetsuya



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