Multiple Users Running DPDK Apps

[Alex K <aiklimov@hotmail.com>]

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Should multiple users be able to take turns running DPDK apps on the same system without using sudo?

Hugepages setup is required for multi-process support. The usertools/dpdk-hugepages.py script accepts user id and group id arguments when mounting hugepages directory. And I was hoping that files created in this directory would be created such that they would be accessible by the users in this same group. However, I'm seeing that those created hugepages files get the 0600 permissions (read/write by the user only) and group ownership is not set to the group specified in the dpdk-hugepages.py script. So another user attempting to run DPDK apps gets a Permission denied error attempting to access hugepages files.
Is this a bug or by design? Should each user have a separate hugepages directory setup somehow?

I'm using vfio-pci kernel module with IOMMU, DPDK 23.11.1 LTS on RHEL 9. Seeing same behavior with 24.11.1 LTS. Tried to follow the instructions at: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-23.11/linux_gsg/enable_func.html#running-dpdk-applications-without-root-privileges

Would like to understand if what I'm attempting is supported and if there's anything I'm missing.
Thank you.

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