[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/62] common/cnxk: allocate lmt region in userspace

Jerin Jacob jerinjacobk at gmail.com
Mon Jun 14 05:32:46 CEST 2021


On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 11:33 PM Nithin Dabilpuram
<ndabilpuram at marvell.com> wrote:
>
> From: Harman Kalra <hkalra at marvell.com>
>
> As per the new LMTST design, userspace shall allocate lmt region,
> setup the DMA translation and share the IOVA with kernel via MBOX.
> Kernel will convert this IOVA to physical memory and update the
> LMT table entry with the same.
> With this new design also shared mode (i.e. all pci funcs sharing
> the LMT region allocated by primary/base pci func) is intact.
>
> Signed-off-by: Harman Kalra <hkalra at marvell.com>

Reviewed-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>


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