[dpdk-dev] IGB_UIO port unbinding

Burakov, Anatoly anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Fri Apr 11 10:59:03 CEST 2014


Hi Prashant,

> There was a usecase with ESXi VMXNET3 NIC where I had to use this
> parameter set to Y to make it work.
> So kindly ensure that the initialization of vmxnet3 NIC is not vulnerable.
> 

Did you try it on the latest 1.6.x code (that option was removed)?

More to the point, I can't see how this would be relevant to vmxnet3 initialization. All this config option does is automatically unbinds NICs for you, which is something you can do manually with the included igb_uio_bind.py/pci_unbind.py script anyway. Could you please elaborate on how exactly this option helped with vmxnet3 initialization?

Best regards,
Anatoly Burakov
DPDK SW Engineer

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