Oops, seems I failed to send it out (I happened to know it when
I was checking the patchwork status: I didn't find my comment).
I also happened to find out that I failed to receive quite many
emails, including some patches. Seems something went wrong :(
--yliu
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 03:16:26PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:37:00PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > Virtio pmd doesn't support VFIO in the past since devices bypass IOMMU
> > completely. But recently, the work of making virtio device work with
> > IOMMU is near to complete. So this patch make pmd support IOMMU by:
> >
> > - Allow VFIO mapping by setting RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING flag
>
> I think that's not needed, since virtio_read_caps() invokes
> rte_eal_pci_map_device().
>
> --yliu
