[dpdk-dev] VFIO no-iommu

Vincent JARDIN vincent.jardin at 6wind.com
Thu Dec 17 22:16:38 CET 2015


On 17/12/2015 20:38, Jan Viktorin wrote:
> which platforms (or computer systems) I am targeting?

It is about VMs on IOMMU capable systems. What if you need to use SRIOV 
with IXGBE, or IGB devices?

For some DPDK cases, like Mellanox or virtio, you do not need to use 
VFIO/UIO into the guests, so no issue. But for some other PMDs, you need 
a VFIO/UIO.

Best regards,
   Vincent


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