[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 40/41] net/virtio: use contiguous allocation for DMA memory

Maxime Coquelin maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
Wed Mar 28 13:58:51 CEST 2018


Hi Anatoly,

On 03/07/2018 05:57 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs at google.com>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>      Not sure if virtio needs to allocate DMA-capable memory,
>      being a software driver and all. Corrections welcome.

Yes, we need the ring memory to be contiguous in physical address space.

>   drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

So:

Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>

Thanks,
Maxime


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