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Subject: Re: Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 02:53:19PM +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/30/15 14:41, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 02:26:01PM +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
> >>The whole idea is to bypass kernel. Especially for networking...
> >... on dumb hardware that doesn't support doing that securely.
> 
> On a very capable HW that supports whatever security requirements needed
> (e.g. 82599 Intel's SR-IOV VF devices).

Network card type is irrelevant as long as you do not have an IOMMU,
otherwise you would just use e.g. VFIO.

> >Colour me unimpressed.
> >