On 10/11/2017 3:33 AM, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> With the introduction of IOVA mode, the only blocker to run
> with 4KB pages for NICs binding to vfio-pci, is that
> RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR is not a valid IOVA address.
> 
> We can refine this by using VA as IOVA if it's IOVA mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng....@intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c 
> b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> index 28bca49..187d338 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> @@ -1030,7 +1030,10 @@ rte_eal_hugepage_init(void)
>                                       strerror(errno));
>                       return -1;
>               }
> -             mcfg->memseg[0].phys_addr = RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR;
> +             if (rte_eal_iova_mode() == RTE_IOVA_VA)
> +                     mcfg->memseg[0].phys_addr = (uintptr_t)addr;
> +             else
> +                     mcfg->memseg[0].phys_addr = RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR;

This breaks KNI which requires physical address.

Any idea how to disable RTE_IOVA_VA when KNI used?

>               mcfg->memseg[0].addr = addr;
>               mcfg->memseg[0].hugepage_sz = RTE_PGSIZE_4K;
>               mcfg->memseg[0].len = internal_config.memory;
> 

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