> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-boun...@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Viacheslav Ovsiienko
>
> The User Access Region is a special mechanism to provide direct
> access to the hardware registers, and is the part of PCI address
> space that is mapped to CPU virtual address. The mapping can be
> performed with the type "Write-Combining" or "Non-Cached", and
> these ones might be supported or not on different setups.
>
> To prevent device probing failure the UAR allocation attempt
> with alternative mapping type is performed. The datapath
> takes the actual UAR mapping into account on queue creation.
>
> There was another issue with NULL UAR base address.
> OFED 5.0.x and Upstream rdma_core before v29 returned the NULL as
> UAR base address if UAR was not the first object in the UAR page.
> It caused the PMD failure and we should try to get another UAR
> till we get the first one with non-NULL base address returned.
>
> Fixes: fc4d4f732bbc ("net/mlx5: introduce shared UAR resource")
>
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@mellanox.com>
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> 1.8.3.1
Acked-by: Ori Kam <or...@mellanox.com>
Thanks,
Ori
