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. > > -- > Thanks, > Anatoly
