memzone: enable IOVA-contiguous reserving

[dpdk.git] / lib / librte_eal / common / include / rte_memzone.h

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_memzone.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_memzone.h
index 2bfb273..e2630fd 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_memzone.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_memzone.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <rte_compat.h>
 #include <rte_memory.h>
 #include <rte_common.h>
 
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ extern "C" {
 #define RTE_MEMZONE_512MB          0x00040000   /**< Use 512MB pages. */
 #define RTE_MEMZONE_4GB            0x00080000   /**< Use 4GB pages. */
 #define RTE_MEMZONE_SIZE_HINT_ONLY 0x00000004   /**< Use available page size */
+#define RTE_MEMZONE_IOVA_CONTIG    0x00100000   /**< Ask for IOVA-contiguous memzone. */
 
 /**
  * A structure describing a memzone, which is a contiguous portion of
@@ -102,6 +104,9 @@ struct rte_memzone {
  *                                  If this flag is not set, the function
  *                                  will return error on an unavailable size
  *                                  request.
+ *   - RTE_MEMZONE_IOVA_CONTIG - Ensure reserved memzone is IOVA-contiguous.
+ *                               This option should be used when allocating
+ *                               memory intended for hardware rings etc.
  * @return
  *   A pointer to a correctly-filled read-only memzone descriptor, or NULL
  *   on error.
@@ -152,6 +157,9 @@ const struct rte_memzone *rte_memzone_reserve(const char *name,
  *                                  If this flag is not set, the function
  *                                  will return error on an unavailable size
  *                                  request.
+ *   - RTE_MEMZONE_IOVA_CONTIG - Ensure reserved memzone is IOVA-contiguous.
+ *                               This option should be used when allocating
+ *                               memory intended for hardware rings etc.
  * @param align
  *   Alignment for resulting memzone. Must be a power of 2.
  * @return
@@ -207,6 +215,9 @@ const struct rte_memzone *rte_memzone_reserve_aligned(const char *name,
  *                                  If this flag is not set, the function
  *                                  will return error on an unavailable size
  *                                  request.
+ *   - RTE_MEMZONE_IOVA_CONTIG - Ensure reserved memzone is IOVA-contiguous.
+ *                               This option should be used when allocating
+ *                               memory intended for hardware rings etc.
  * @param align
  *   Alignment for resulting memzone. Must be a power of 2.
  * @param bound