[dpdk-dev] Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to uio_pci_generic on Amazon instance

[Vlad Zolotarov]

On 09/30/15 22:39, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:06:52PM +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
>>>> How would iommu
>>>> virtualization change anything?
>>> Kernel can use an iommu to limit device access to memory of
>>> the controlling application.
>> Ok, this is obvious but what it has to do with enabling using MSI/MSI-X
>> interrupts support in uio_pci_generic? kernel may continue to limit the
>> above access with this support as well.
> It could maybe. So if you write a patch to allow MSI by at the same time
> creating an isolated IOMMU group and blocking DMA from device in
> question anywhere, that sounds reasonable.

No, I'm only planning to add MSI and MSI-X interrupts support for 
uio_pci_generic device.
The rest mentioned above should naturally be a matter of a different 
patch and writing it is orthogonal to the patch I'm working on as has 
been extensively discussed in this thread.

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