[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] vfio: use the generic multi-process channel
Burakov, Anatoly
anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Thu Jan 25 11:52:41 CET 2018
On 25-Jan-18 10:47 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 25/01/2018 05:16, Jianfeng Tan:
>> Previously, vfio uses its own private channel for the secondary
>> process to get container fd and group fd from the primary process.
>>
>> This patch changes to use the generic mp channel.
>
> There was a private request to get it in 18.02-rc2.
>
> I have 3 concerns:
> 1/ It is late
> 2/ It is not yet reviewed by Anatoly and Konstantin
> 3/ We try to not rework the existing code in RC2,
> because it would totally invalidate the validation work
> done for RC1.
>
>
Hi Thomas,
We can postpone the VFIO patch until 18.05, and integrate only the first
two patches. First two patches do not change anything in DPDK, so
validation impact should be non-existent.
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Thanks,
Anatoly
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