From: David Marchand <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 4:19 PM To: Ben Walker <[email protected]>; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <[email protected]> Cc: dev <[email protected]>; Burakov, Anatoly <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] eal/pci: Improve automatic selection of IOVA mode
> - This leaves the --iova-va forcing option. > Why do we need it? > If we don't have access to physical addresses, no choice but run in VA mode. > If we have access to physical addresses, the only case would be that you want > to downgrade from PA to VA. > But well, your process can still access it, not sure what the benefit is. > Jerin, I can see in the history you worked on this. > What did I miss? > Is there something wrong with dropping the detection code? Its added by Eric to support virtual devices. https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-September/111141.html
