On 3/9/2018 6:07 PM, Junjie Chen wrote:
In vhost-switch example, when binding nic to vfio-pci with iommu enabled,
dequeue zero copy cannot work in VM2NIC mode due to no iommu dma mapping
is setup for guest memory currently.
Signed-off-by: Junjie Chen <junjie.j.c...@intel.com>
---
Changes in V3:
- update limitation to iommu
Changes in V2:
- add doc in vhost lib
doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst | 5 +++++
doc/guides/sample_app_ug/vhost.rst | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
index 18227b6..06d214f 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ The following is an overview of some key Vhost API functions:
of those segments, thus the fewer the segments, the quicker we will get
the mapping. NOTE: we may speed it by using tree searching in future.
+ * zero copy does not work when using driver with iommu mode currently, this
Considering FreeBSD driver nic_uio does not support iommu, we can make
"driver" more explicitly. For example,
"driver with iommu mode" -> "vfio-pci with iommu mode"
+ is because we don't setup iommu dma mapping for guest memory.
For example, when you bind device to vfio-pci driver, you need to set driver to
work in noiommu mode.
Reword the above sentence a little bit:
"If vfio-pci is a must in your case, insert vfio-pci kernel module in
noiommu mode."
+
- ``RTE_VHOST_USER_IOMMU_SUPPORT``
IOMMU support will be enabled when this flag is set. It is disabled by
diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/vhost.rst
b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/vhost.rst
index a4bdc6a..f0bb169 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/vhost.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/vhost.rst
@@ -147,7 +147,10 @@ retries on an RX burst, it takes effect only when rx retry
is enabled. The
default value is 15.
**--dequeue-zero-copy**
-Dequeue zero copy will be enabled when this option is given.
+Dequeue zero copy will be enabled when this option is given. it is worth to
+note that if NIC is binded to driver with iommu enabled, dequeue zero copy
+cannot work at VM2NIC mode (vm2vm=0) due to currently we don't setup iommu
+dma mapping for guest memory.
**--vlan-strip 0|1**
VLAN strip option is removed, because different NICs have different behaviors
