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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] doc: Clarify IOMMU usage with
 "uio_pci_generic" kernel module
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:20:23 +0100
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On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:07:42AM +0800, tone.zhang wrote:
> If the devices used for DPDK are bound to the "uio_pci_generic" kernel
> module, the IOMMU should be disabled in order not to break the IO
> transmission because of the virtual / physical address mapping.
> 
> The patch clarifies the IOMMU configurations on both x86_64 and arm64
> systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: tone.zhang <tone.zhang@arm.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
> index 371a817..3304800 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_drivers.rst
> @@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ be loaded as shown below:
>     ``vfio-pci`` kernel module rather than ``igb_uio`` or ``uio_pci_generic``.
>     For more details see :ref:`linux_gsg_binding_kernel` below.
>  
> +.. note::
> +
> +   If the devices used for DPDK are bound to the ``uio_pci_generic`` kernel module,
> +   please make sure that the IOMMU is disabledi or passthrough. One can add
typo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

> +   ``intel_iommu=off`` or ``amd_iommu=off`` or ``intel_iommu=on iommu=pt``in GRUB
> +   command line on x86_64 systems, or add ``iommu.passthrough=1`` on arm64 system.
> +
>  Since DPDK release 1.7 onward provides VFIO support, use of UIO is optional
>  for platforms that support using VFIO.
>  
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>