[dpdk-dev] Userspace testing
Burakov, Anatoly
anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Mon Aug 10 10:53:05 CEST 2020
On 03-Aug-20 3:31 PM, Owen Hilyard wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 5:12 AM Burakov, Anatoly
> <anatoly.burakov at intel.com <mailto:anatoly.burakov at intel.com>> wrote:
>
> On 30-Jul-20 5:54 PM, Owen Hilyard wrote:
> > Thanks for the advice.
> >
> > I was wondering about the state of the "Setup VFIO permissions"
> option
> > in the setup script. It seems to just modify the character device's
> > permissions and then check their memory limit. Should this option
> also
> > handle the hugepages setup?
>
> I was under the (mis?)impression that the hugepage setup part of the
> script did that?
>
> It doesn't appear to set them up so that non-root users can use them.
> From what I can tell it only creates the pages, but doesn't change
> permissions on them in any way.
Right. Then, it probably should (or perhaps it should be added as
another menu option, as probably not everyone would want to do a
chmod/chown on hugepage mounts).
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Thanks,
Anatoly
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