[PATCH v3] event/dlb2: fix disable PASID for kernel 6.2

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Nov 2 11:48:52 CET 2023


02/11/2023 11:23, Bruce Richardson:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 07:05:54PM +0000, Sevincer, Abdullah wrote:
> > 
> > >++ PCIe maintainers.
> > 
> > >+I will leave this up to @David Marchand  / @Thomas as this patch has common code changes and needs to come via main tree.
> > 
> > >+Also in this case, The comment was given very early(Back in June 7) for the same.
> > >+https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230607210050.107944-1-abdullah.sevincer@intel.com/
> > 
> > Thanks Jerrin and Bruce for the comments.
> > I will wait for opinion of PCI maintainers.
> 
> Thinking on this more, any API for enable/disable pasid would be
> internal-only, so therefore would not be subject to ABI/API change rules
> AFAIK. This gives us more freedom to change it as more discovery
> capabilities become available.
> Therefore, an initial version of the function can take the offset as
> parameter, and we can update it without API/ABI concerns later. I was
> previously worried about trying to get the API correct first time, but for
> internal functions, we don't need to.

It looks a good option.
Better to add an internal PCI function than doing it in a PMD.

> WDYT, Jerin, Abdullah.




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