[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] virtio: support IOMMU platform

[Jason Wang]

On 2016年09月06日 15:46, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> Oops, seems I failed to send it out (I happened to know it when
> I was checking the patchwork status: I didn't find my comment).
>
> I also happened to find out that I failed to receive quite many
> emails, including some patches. Seems something went wrong :(
>
> 	--yliu
>
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 03:16:26PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:37:00PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>> Virtio pmd doesn't support VFIO in the past since devices bypass IOMMU
>>> completely. But recently, the work of making virtio device work with
>>> IOMMU is near to complete. So this patch make pmd support IOMMU by:
>>>
>>> - Allow VFIO mapping by setting RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING flag
>> I think that's not needed, since virtio_read_caps() invokes
>> rte_eal_pci_map_device().
>>
>> 	--yliu

Right.

Thanks.