[PATCH 4/4] eal: add new args to choose VFIO mode

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Dec 22 18:17:35 CET 2023


On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 19:44:53 +0000
beilei.xing at intel.com wrote:

> From: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing at intel.com>
> 
> Since now Linux has both of VFIO Container/GROUP & VFIO IOMMUFD/CDEV
> support, user can determine how to probe the PCI device by the new
> args "--vfio-mode".
> 
> Use "--vfio-mode=container" to choose VFIO Container/GROUP, and use
> "--vfio-mode=iommufd" to choose VFIO IOMMUFD/CDEV.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yahui Cao <yahui.cao at intel.com>

Can't this be automatic, users don't need more EAL options.


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