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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] eal: force IOVA to particular mode
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:43:28 +0100
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On 18-Sep-18 8:10 PM, eric zhang wrote:
> This patch uses EAL option "--iova-mode" to force the IOVA mode to a
> particular value. There exists virtual devices that are not directly
> attached to the PCI bus, and therefore the auto detectioni of the IOVA
> mode based on probing the PCI bus and IOMMU configuration may not
> report the required addressing mode. Using the EAL option permits the
> mode to be explicitly configured in this scenario.
> 
> Signed-off-by: eric zhang <eric.zhang@windriver.com>
> 
> ---

Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

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Thanks,
Anatoly