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[ovs-dev] Documentation: Add note about dpdkvhostuser and IOMMU.

Message ID 1520338029-17628-1-git-send-email-ktraynor@redhat.com
State Accepted
Delegated to: Ian Stokes
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Series [ovs-dev] Documentation: Add note about dpdkvhostuser and IOMMU. | expand

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Kevin Traynor March 6, 2018, 12:07 p.m. UTC
The docs describe IOMMU support for dpdkvhostuserclient ports,
but it is not mentioned in the section about dpdkvhostuser
ports. Add an explicit note to say IOMMU is not supported for
dpdkvhostuser ports.

CC: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
---

This patch is relevant for master and branch-2.9.

 Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Stokes, Ian March 6, 2018, 12:57 p.m. UTC | #1
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ovs-dev-bounces@openvswitch.org [mailto:ovs-dev-
> bounces@openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Traynor
> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 12:07 PM
> To: dev@openvswitch.org
> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Documentation: Add note about dpdkvhostuser and
> IOMMU.
> 
> The docs describe IOMMU support for dpdkvhostuserclient ports, but it is
> not mentioned in the section about dpdkvhostuser ports. Add an explicit
> note to say IOMMU is not supported for dpdkvhostuser ports.
> 
> CC: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> This patch is relevant for master and branch-2.9.
> 
>  Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
> b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
> index 95517a6..8f20398 100644
> --- a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
> @@ -106,4 +106,7 @@ the guest. There are two ways to do this: using QEMU
> directly, or using  libvirt.
> 
> +.. note::
> +   IOMMU is not supported with vhost-user ports.
> +

LGTM.

Acked-by: Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>

I'll put this as part of the pull request this week.

Thanks
Ian

>  Adding vhost-user ports to the guest (QEMU)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> --
> 1.8.3.1
> 
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diff --git a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
index 95517a6..8f20398 100644
--- a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
+++ b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/vhost-user.rst
@@ -106,4 +106,7 @@  the guest. There are two ways to do this: using QEMU directly, or using
 libvirt.
 
+.. note::
+   IOMMU is not supported with vhost-user ports.
+
 Adding vhost-user ports to the guest (QEMU)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~