David, Takeshi,
Can you test your setups with (only) this patch?
This should address both of your issues.
Correctly identifies my system as requiring PA mode:
sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/davec/src/dpdk/build/lib
/home/davec/src/dpdk/build/app/testpmd --log-level="lib.*:debug" -w
0000:01:00.0,txq_inline_min=0 -w 0000:01:00.1,txq_inline_min=0 -l 4-59
-n 4 -- --rxq=8 --rxd=1024 --txq=8 --txd=4096 --nb-cores=16 -i -a --numa
--forward-mode=rxonly
EAL: Detected lcore 0 as core 0 on socket 0
<snip> ...
EAL: Detected lcore 159 as core 2140 on socket 8
EAL: Support maximum 1536 logical core(s) by configuration.
EAL: Detected 160 lcore(s)
EAL: Detected 2 NUMA nodes
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
EAL: Module /sys/module/vfio_pci not found! error 2 (No such file or
directory)
EAL: VFIO PCI modules not loaded
EAL: DPAA Bus not present. Skipping.
EAL: Bus pci wants IOVA as 'PA'
EAL: Bus dpaa_bus wants IOVA as 'DC'
EAL: Bus fslmc wants IOVA as 'DC'
EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'PA'
