[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] vfio: use the generic multi-process channel

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Jan 25 11:47:20 CET 2018


25/01/2018 05:16, Jianfeng Tan:
> Previously, vfio uses its own private channel for the secondary
> process to get container fd and group fd from the primary process.
> 
> This patch changes to use the generic mp channel.

There was a private request to get it in 18.02-rc2.

I have 3 concerns:
1/ It is late
2/ It is not yet reviewed by Anatoly and Konstantin
3/ We try to not rework the existing code in RC2,
because it would totally invalidate the validation work
done for RC1.



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