[dpdk-dev] Running DPDK as an unprivileged user

[Thomas Monjalon]

2017-01-03 22:50, Walker, Benjamin:
> 1) Physical addresses cannot be exposed to unprivileged users due to security
> concerns (the fallout of rowhammer). Therefore, systems without an IOMMU can
> only support privileged users. I think this is probably fine.
> 2) The IOCTL from vfio to pin the memory is tied to specifying the DMA address
> and programming the IOMMU. This is unfortunate - systems without an IOMMU still
> want to do the pinning, but they need to be given the physical address instead
> of specifying a DMA address.
> 3) Not all device types, particularly in virtualization environments, support
> vfio today. These devices have no way to explicitly pin memory.

In VM we can use VFIO-noiommu. Is it helping for mapping?