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From: Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 18:55:24 +0530
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] ethdev: configure SR-IOV VF from host
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On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 6:03 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> 30/10/2019 10:15, Jerin Jacob:
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 2:26 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > 30/10/2019 05:08, Jerin Jacob:
> > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 12:21 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > In a virtual environment, the network controller may have to configure
> > > > > some SR-IOV VF parameters for security reasons.
> > > >
> > > > Just to understand, Could you explain more details/examples for
> > > > security reasons?
> > >
> > > Examples are setting the MAC address or the promiscuous mode.
> > > These settings should be decided by the hypervisor,
> > > and not freely set by the VM.
> >
> > What is hypervisor here, rte_flow based DPDK application over using
> > port representor?
>
> Yes, something like that. An example is OpenStack/OVS.

So it is more of an orchestration primitive. Not the security
primitive as mentioned above,
Because in case the kernel will approve the data set from the guest. Right?