10/07/2017 15:30, santosh: > Hi Olivier, > > On Monday 10 July 2017 05:57 PM, Olivier Matz wrote: > > I didn't check the patchset in detail, but in my understanding, > > what we call physaddr in dpdk is actually a bus address. Shouldn't > > we start to rename some of these fields and functions to avoid > > confusion? > > Agree. > While working on iova mode thing and reading these vir2phy api - > confused me more. Actually it should be iova2va, va2iova or pa2iova,iova2pa.. > where iova address is nothing but bus address Or we should refer to linux > semantics. > > We thought of addressing semantics after this series, Not a priority in IMO.
I think it is a priority to start with semantics. The work is too hard with wrong semantic otherwise.
