From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com>,
"Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma/idxd: add support for multi-process when using VFIO
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 21:14:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2146294.GUh0CODmnK@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1b71adcb-6e89-ddfa-a0d5-9854dbba087e@intel.com>
17/05/2023 12:17, Burakov, Anatoly:
> On 5/15/2023 5:29 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > When using vfio-pci/uio for hardware access, we need to avoid
> > reinitializing the hardware when mapping from a secondary process.
> > Instead, just configure the function pointers and reuse the data
> > mappings from the primary process.
> >
> > With the code change, update driver doc with the information that
> > vfio-pci can be used for multi-process support, and explicitly state the
> > limitation on multi-process support being unavailable when using idxd
> > kernel driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > ---
>
> From multiprocess perspective,
>
> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-24 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-15 16:29 [PATCH] dma/idxd: add support for multi-process when using VFIO Bruce Richardson
2023-05-17 10:17 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2023-05-24 19:14 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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