[dpdk-dev] Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to uio_pci_generic on Amazon instance
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at redhat.com
Thu Oct 1 12:44:40 CEST 2015
On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 01:25:17PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Why use a VF on a non-virtualized system?
1. So a userspace bug does not destroy your hardware
(PFs generally assume trusted non-buggy drivers, VFs
generally don't).
2. So you can use a PF or another VF for regular networking.
3. So you can manage this system, to some level.
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MST
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