[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/1] kernel/linux: introduce vfio_pf kernel module

[Thomas Monjalon]

07/11/2019 06:02, Jerin Jacob:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 4:03 AM Alex Williamson
> <alex.williamson at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Ideas have been suggested
> > upstream for for quarantining VFs generated from user owned PFs such
> > that we require an opt-in to make use of them in this way.  Nobody
> > seems to be pursuing such ideas upstream.  I don't even see upstream
> > proposals to add a scary sounding module option to vfio-pci that would
> > taint the kernel, but make this available.  If nothing else, please
> > remove the vfio name from this abomination, it has nothing to do with
> > vfio other than to try to subvert the security and isolation that vfio
> > attempts to provide.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. Let's hold on accepting this patch.
> 
> We would like to have an upstream solution so that DPDK needs to only focus
> on userspace.
> 
> I will work on submitting a patch for the discussion in Linux upstream.
> Let see how the discussion goes, Based on the that, We can revisit
> fate of this module.

Just to be clear, vfio_pf is on hold, i.e. not merged in DPDK 19.11.