On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 12:40 PM Feng Li <lifeng1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 6:39 PM Burakov, Anatoly > <anatoly.bura...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > On 25-Mar-21 1:32 PM, David Marchand wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:13 PM Li Feng <fen...@smartx.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> Cool, thank you, Anatoly and Kozlyuk. > > >> > > >> I haven't found how Windows implements the rte_mem_virt2phy. > > >> > > >> Using an opaque structure pointer as the first argument is a good idea. > > > > > > I pinged about this patch status 6 months ago but got no reply. > > > Trying again in public. > > > > > > From the thread, I understand that at best it would have to be done > > > differently. > > > > > > > I would agree with the latter. Like i said in my original response, the > > fd-less API's are already on the very of what's acceptable and in the > > perfect world we wouldn't have them in the first place, and i don't like > > the fact that they exist and would wholly discourage their use, mainly > > because of very confusing semantics of real physical address vs. DPDK's > > IOVA vs. user IOVA, and potential for errors due to trying to resolve an > > IOVA address of something that doesn't even have it. > > > > Given the above, I certainly don't like the idea of building on top of > > these API's. > > Got it. Let's drop it.
I marked it as rejected in patchwork. Thanks. -- David Marchand
