From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: eric zhang Subject: [PATCH] doc: update the doc for adding EAL option Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 11:54:50 -0400 Message-ID: <1538409290-24998-1-git-send-email-eric.zhang@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: , , To: , , Return-path: Received: from mail5.wrs.com (mail5.windriver.com [192.103.53.11]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284B31B3B0 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2018 17:55:37 +0200 (CEST) List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" This patch updates Programmer's Guide and EAL parameter guides to show EAL option "--iova-mode" support. Signed-off-by: eric zhang --- doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst | 8 ++++++++ doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst index d362c92..a47fb38 100644 --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst @@ -321,6 +321,14 @@ Misc Functions Locks and atomic operations are per-architecture (i686 and x86_64). +IOVA Mode Configuration +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Auto detection of the IOVA mode, based on probing the PCI bus and IOMMU configuration, may not report +the desired addressing mode when virtual devices that are not directly attached to the PCI bus are present. +To facilitate forcing the IOVA mode to a specific value the EAL command line option ``--iova-mode=mode`` can +be used to select either physical addressing('pa') or virtual addressing('va'). + Memory Segments and Memory Zones (memzone) ------------------------------------------ diff --git a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst index f301c2b..be2911c 100644 --- a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst +++ b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst @@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ See the DPDK Getting Started Guides for more information on these options. Use malloc instead of hugetlbfs. +* ``--iova-mode=mode`` + + Force IOVA mode to a specific value. Valid values are 'pa' or 'va'. + Testpmd Command-line Options ---------------------------- -- 2.7.4