RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] mbuf: add mbuf physical address field to dynamic field

2022-09-12 Thread Shijith Thotton
>On 7/1/2022 1:24 PM, Shijith Thotton wrote: If all devices are configured to run in IOVA mode as VA, physical address field of mbuf (buf_iova) won't be used. In such cases, buf_iova space is free to use as a dynamic field. So a new dynamic field member (dynfield2) is added in m

RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] mbuf: add mbuf physical address field to dynamic field

2022-08-03 Thread Shijith Thotton
Hi Bruce, >> > >> If all devices are configured to run in IOVA mode as VA, physical >> > >> address field of mbuf (buf_iova) won't be used. >> >> Will some of the hardware vendors please comment on this: Has IOVA VA mode >become common over time, or is it still an exotic bleeding edge feature? >>

RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] mbuf: add mbuf physical address field to dynamic field

2022-07-01 Thread Shijith Thotton
> >On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 05:55:21PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 09:55:16PM +0530, Shijith Thotton wrote: >> > If all devices are configured to run in IOVA mode as VA, physical >> > address field of mbuf (buf_iova) won't be used. In such cases, buf_iova >> > space is