[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 08/11] eal: pci: introduce RTE_KDRV_VFIO_NOIOMMUi driver mode

[Santosh Shukla]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Santosh Shukla <sshukla at mvista.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
>> 2016-01-27 21:02, Santosh Shukla:
>>> 1. virtio currently works for vfio+noiommu and likely will work for
>>> vfio+iommu in near future.
>>> 2. So remove __noiommu suffix and always use default.
>>> 3. Introduce vfio resource parsing global function, That function
>>> suppose to do parsing for default vfio case and for vfio-noiommu case.
>>> This function will be used by pmd drivers for resource parsing purpose
>>> example virtio.
>>>
>>> Yuan won't be happy with 3) I guess, because he wanted to get rid of
>>> interface parsing from pmd driver.
>>>
>>> Thomas, if 1/2/3/ addresses your concern then I'll spin the series,
>>
>> I agree with 1/ and 2/.
>> Please, could you explain why 3/ is needed?
>
> Because someone should do resource parsing / validation before driver
> does resource mapping/initialization. That someone could be either EAL
> layer or driver itself.
>
> In my case;
> - driver is virtio
> - resource is vfio interface

FWIW, removed 3) / Removed this patch entirely from this series,
Sending v6 version for effected patch [09/11]..