From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AC332BE5 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:15:38 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga101.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 25 Jan 2018 04:15:37 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,412,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="26259918" Received: from aburakov-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.145]) ([10.237.220.145]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 25 Jan 2018 04:15:35 -0800 To: Thomas Monjalon Cc: Jianfeng Tan , dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com References: <1512067450-59203-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <2010166.0Q39LqRaO8@xps> <3fe4f70a-eeb6-e061-5d2e-8b62578ced47@intel.com> <2069506.YIxbetVmv7@xps> From: "Burakov, Anatoly" Message-ID: <4e40d407-5457-91bd-4f79-00e4e8db9da2@intel.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:15:35 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2069506.YIxbetVmv7@xps> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/3] vfio: use the generic multi-process channel X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:15:38 -0000 On 25-Jan-18 10:57 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 25/01/2018 11:52, Burakov, Anatoly: >> On 25-Jan-18 10:47 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >>> 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. >>> >>> >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> We can postpone the VFIO patch until 18.05, and integrate only the first >> two patches. First two patches do not change anything in DPDK, so >> validation impact should be non-existent. > > Yes, possible if it is well reviewed and all comments addressed. > OK then. Jianfeng, let's drop the VFIO patch for now, and postpone it for 18.05? -- Thanks, Anatoly