[dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] mempool: remove check for bad IOVA when populating

[Olivier Matz]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 01:58:21PM +0000, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Currently, mempool will check if IOVA is bad for a segment, and reject
> the IOVA if hugepages are also enabled. This check is wrong because now
> that we have external memory segments, they are allowed to have their
> IOVA's to be invalid. This check also doesn't make much sense in the
> first place, because the following code can handle bad IOVA's perfectly
> well (and in fact, this check is not triggering a failure when
> --no-huge option is enabled), so there is not much sense to check for
> this in the first place.
> 
> Fixes: 950e8fb4e194 ("mem: allow registering external memory areas")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>