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

Stokes, Ian ian.stokes at intel.com
Tue Mar 6 12:57:41 UTC 2018


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ovs-dev-bounces at openvswitch.org [mailto:ovs-dev-
> bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Traynor
> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 12:07 PM
> To: dev at openvswitch.org
> Cc: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at 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 at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at 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 at 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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