Hi Anatoly, Thanks for quick response. We want to understand, if there will be performance implications because of iova-mode being va. We want to understand, specifically in terms following
- cache misses - Branch misses etc - translation of va addr -> phy addr when packet is receieved Thanks and regards Venu On Thu, 14 Nov 2019 at 15:14, Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> wrote: > On 13-Nov-19 9:01 PM, Venumadhav Josyula wrote: > > Hi Anatoly, > > > > By default w/o specifying --iova-mode option is iova-mode=pa by default ? > > > > Thanks > > Venu > > > > In 18.11, there is a very specific set of circumstances that will > default to IOVA as VA mode. Future releases have become more aggressive, > to the point of IOVA as VA mode being the default unless asked > otherwise. So yes, it is highly likely that in your case, IOVA as PA is > picked as the default. > > -- > Thanks, > Anatoly >
