[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] uio: new driver to support PCI MSI-X

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Oct 16 19:20:44 CEST 2015


On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:11:35 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:

> To sum it up,
> We want to remove the need of the out-of-tree module igb_uio.
> 3 possible implementations were discussed so far:
> - new UIO driver
> - extend uio_pci_generic
> - VFIO without IOMMU

There is recent progress on VFIO without IOMMU. This looks the most promising
long term solution.



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