[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v14 2/2] eal: support for VFIO-PCI VF token

Ye Xiaolong xiaolong.ye at intel.com
Fri May 29 03:26:24 CEST 2020


On 05/28, Haiyue Wang wrote:
>The kernel module vfio-pci introduces the VF token to enable SR-IOV
>support since 5.7.
>
>The VF token can be set by a vfio-pci based PF driver and must be known
>by the vfio-pci based VF driver in order to gain access to the device.
>
>Signed-off-by: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang at intel.com>
>Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
>Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>
>---

[snip]

>+
>+/**
>+ * Copy the user-configured vfio VF token.
>+ *
>+ * @param vf_token
>+ *   vfio VF token configured with the command line is copied
>+ *   into this parameter, zero uuid by default.
>+ */
>+__rte_experimental
>+void rte_eal_vfio_get_vf_token(rte_uuid_t vf_token);
>+

Minor nit, missing the EXPERIMENTAL warning int the comment.

 * @warning
 * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice
 *


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