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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio: support IOMMU platform
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 15:46:18 +0800
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Oops, seems I failed to send it out (I happened to know it when
I was checking the patchwork status: I didn't find my comment).

I also happened to find out that I failed to receive quite many
emails, including some patches. Seems something went wrong :(

	--yliu

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 03:16:26PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:37:00PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > Virtio pmd doesn't support VFIO in the past since devices bypass IOMMU
> > completely. But recently, the work of making virtio device work with
> > IOMMU is near to complete. So this patch make pmd support IOMMU by:
> > 
> > - Allow VFIO mapping by setting RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING flag
> 
> I think that's not needed, since virtio_read_caps() invokes
> rte_eal_pci_map_device().
> 
> 	--yliu