[dpdk-dev] Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to uio_pci_generic on Amazon instance

Vlad Zolotarov vladz at cloudius-systems.com
Thu Oct 1 10:46:24 CEST 2015



On 10/01/15 11:44, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:40:16PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> And for what, to prevent
>>> root from touching memory via dma that they can access in a million other
>>> ways?
>> So one can be reasonably sure a kernel oops is not a result of a
>> userspace bug.
> Actually, I thought about this overnight, and  it should be possible to
> drive it securely from userspace, without hypervisor changes.
>
> See
>
> https://mid.gmane.org/20151001104505-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com

Looks like a dead link.

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>> -- 
>> MST



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