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Hi Sujith,

> One aspect of ENIC PMD is that it works with VFIO-PCI and not UIO.  Hope
> this is acceptable.  The following thread in dpdk-dev influenced this dec=
ision.
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2013-July/000373.html

You may find this [1] patchset interesting. Basically, it adds native suppo=
rt for VFIO to do the binding and unbinding in DPDK. Whether it fits your p=
urposes depends on your code, but hopefully you'll be able to simplify your=
 code.

[1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-May/002568.html

Best regards,
Anatoly Burakov
DPDK SW Engineer