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

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:09:33 +0300
Vlad Zolotarov <vladz at cloudius-systems.com> wrote:

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> On 09/30/15 22:39, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:06:52PM +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
> >>>> How would iommu
> >>>> virtualization change anything?
> >>> Kernel can use an iommu to limit device access to memory of
> >>> the controlling application.
> >> Ok, this is obvious but what it has to do with enabling using MSI/MSI-X
> >> interrupts support in uio_pci_generic? kernel may continue to limit the
> >> above access with this support as well.
> > It could maybe. So if you write a patch to allow MSI by at the same time
> > creating an isolated IOMMU group and blocking DMA from device in
> > question anywhere, that sounds reasonable.
> 
> No, I'm only planning to add MSI and MSI-X interrupts support for 
> uio_pci_generic device.
> The rest mentioned above should naturally be a matter of a different 
> patch and writing it is orthogonal to the patch I'm working on as has 
> been extensively discussed in this thread.
> 
> >
> 

I have a generic MSI and MSI-X driver (posted earlier on this list).
About to post to upstream kernel.