Re: [PATCH v2] eal/linux: skip vfio for non-privileged container

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM Yang Ming <ming.1.yang@nokia-sbell.com> wrote:
>
> DPDK detect vfio container according the existence of vfio
> module. But for container with non-privileged mode, there is
> possibility that no VFIO_DIR(/dev/vfio) mapping from host to
> container when host have both Intel NIC and Mellanox NIC but
> this conntainer only allocate VFs from Mellanox NIC.
> In this case, vfio kernel module has already been loaded from
> the host.
> This scenario will cause the error log occurs in DPDK primary
> process as below:
> 'EAL:   cannot open VFIO container, error 2 (No such file or
> directory)'
> 'EAL: VFIO support could not be initialized'
> Because `rte_vfio_enable()` call `rte_vfio_get_container_fd()`
> to execute `vfio_container_fd = open(VFIO_CONTAINER_PATH,
> O_RDWR);` but VFIO_CONTAINER_PATH(/dev/vfio/vfio) doesn't exist
> in this container.
> This scenario will also lead to the delay of DPDK secondary
> process because `default_vfio_cfg->vfio_enabled = 0` and
> `default_vfio_cfg->vfio_container_fd = -1`, socket error will
> be set in DPDK primary process when it sync this info to
> the secondary process.
> This patch use to skip this kind of useless detection for this
> scenario.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Ming <ming.1.yang@nokia-sbell.com>

With such a change, is the check on the passed kernel module still needed?


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David Marchand