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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] VFIO: Avoid to enable vfio while the module not loaded
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:51:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3608020.TiYYj1Dva7@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C6ECDF3AB251BE4894318F4E4512369780C3CDC1@IRSMSX109.ger.corp.intel.com>

2015-01-15 13:42, Burakov, Anatoly:
> Yep, apologies, it's my fault as it was my suggestion.
> I knew there was a linuxapp-only EAL header, for some reason I thought it's eal_private.
> Any suggestions on where to put this function? I don't think BSD needs this function. 

No, it's OK. I think it could be needed in bsd if a PMD
depends on a kernel driver or try to unload one.

PS: please don't top post
-- 
Thomas


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 1:38 PM
> > To: Qiu, Michael
> > Cc: Burakov, Anatoly; dev@dpdk.org; Xie, Huawei
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] VFIO: Avoid to enable vfio while the module not
> > loaded
> > 
> > > > When vfio module is not loaded when kernel support vfio feature, the
> > > > routine still try to open the container to get file description.
> > > >
> > > > This action is not safe, and of cause got error messages:
> > > >
> > > > EAL: Detected 40 lcore(s)
> > > > EAL:   unsupported IOMMU type!
> > > > EAL: VFIO support could not be initialized
> > > > EAL: Setting up memory...
> > > >
> > > > This may make user confuse, this patch make it reasonable and much
> > > > more soomth to user.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Michael Qiu <michael.qiu@intel.com>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> > 
> > Note that rte_eal_check_module has no bsd counterpart.
> > It could be needed later.
> > 
> > Applied
> > 
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-15 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-04  3:36 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Michael Qiu
2014-12-04 10:00 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Michael Qiu
2014-12-05 10:00   ` Burakov, Anatoly
2014-12-08  7:25     ` Qiu, Michael
2014-12-08 18:47       ` Burakov, Anatoly
2014-12-09  2:47         ` Qiu, Michael
2014-12-09  9:51           ` Burakov, Anatoly
2014-12-08  8:27   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Michael Qiu
2014-12-08  9:54     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2014-12-08 10:28       ` Qiu, Michael
2014-12-08 10:44   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Michael Qiu
2014-12-08 12:19     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2014-12-08 15:28       ` Qiu, Michael
2014-12-10  0:17         ` Xie, Huawei
2014-12-10  2:06           ` Qiu, Michael
2014-12-10  2:22     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] " Michael Qiu
2014-12-10  9:21       ` Burakov, Anatoly
2014-12-10 11:29         ` Qiu, Michael
2014-12-10 11:46     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] " Michael Qiu
2014-12-10 11:48       ` Burakov, Anatoly
2014-12-19  7:09         ` Qiu, Michael
2014-12-19  8:23           ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-12-22  1:21             ` Qiu, Michael
2015-01-15 13:38         ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-01-15 13:42           ` Burakov, Anatoly
2015-01-15 13:51             ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-12-04 13:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Burakov, Anatoly
2014-12-04 13:47   ` Qiu, Michael
2014-12-04 16:31     ` Burakov, Anatoly
2014-12-05  4:01       ` Qiu, Michael
2014-12-04 13:13 ` Burakov, Anatoly

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