From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> To: Adam Dybkowski <adamx.dybkowski@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org, fiona.trahe@intel.com, akhil.goyal@nxp.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/1] doc: document vfio-pci usage with QAT PMD Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 11:51:48 +0100 Message-ID: <6087c0a7-9321-d337-f5fb-57d93b8ac991@intel.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20200908161950.601-2-adamx.dybkowski@intel.com> On 08-Sep-20 5:19 PM, Adam Dybkowski wrote: > This patch marks the old igb-uio driver as unsecure when used > with the QAT PMD and updates all examples to recommend using > vfio-pci instead. > It also mentions security issues with the QAT CPM and provides > information about the new vfio-pci parameter 'disable_denylist' > available in Linux kernels 5.9 and later. > > Signed-off-by: Adam Dybkowski <adamx.dybkowski@intel.com> > Acked-by: Fiona Trahe <fiona.trahe@intel.com> > --- <snip> > > cd to the top-level DPDK directory > modprobe uio No need to modprobe uio if you're using VFIO. > - insmod ./build/kmod/igb_uio.ko > - echo "8086 37c9" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/igb_uio/new_id > + modprobe vfio-pci > + echo "8086 37c9" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/new_id This seems like very outdated instructions from when we had a PCI ID filtering in igb_uio. Devbind way is better in every way, so why keep this at all? > lspci -vvd:37c9 > > +Use ``modprobe vfio-pci disable_denylist=1`` from kernel 5.9 onwards. > +See note in the section `Binding the available VFs to the vfio-pci driver`_ > +above. > > -Another way to bind the VFs to the DPDK UIO driver is by using the > +Another way to bind the VFs to the vfio-pci driver is by using the > ``dpdk-devbind.py`` script:: > > cd to the top-level DPDK directory > - ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b igb_uio 0000:03:01.1 > + ./usertools/dpdk-devbind.py -b vfio-pci 0000:03:01.1 > > Testing > ~~~~~~~ > -- Thanks, Anatoly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-09 10:51 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2020-09-08 14:20 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Adam Dybkowski 2020-09-08 16:00 ` Trahe, Fiona 2020-09-08 16:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/1] " Adam Dybkowski 2020-09-08 16:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/1] " Adam Dybkowski 2020-09-09 10:51 ` Burakov, Anatoly [this message] 2020-09-08 19:22 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/1] " Mcnamara, John 2020-09-15 11:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Adam Dybkowski 2020-09-15 11:14 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/1] " Adam Dybkowski 2020-09-16 12:33 ` Burakov, Anatoly 2020-10-08 21:29 ` Akhil Goyal 2020-10-12 10:50 ` Dybkowski, AdamX 2020-10-12 10:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/1] " Adam Dybkowski 2020-10-12 10:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/1] " Adam Dybkowski 2020-10-13 14:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 0/1] " Adam Dybkowski 2020-10-13 14:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/1] " Adam Dybkowski 2020-10-28 11:05 ` Akhil Goyal
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