[PATCH v2 07/19] net/nbl: do not use VFIO group bind API

Anatoly Burakov
2025-11-14T17:41:34Z

The NBL driver currently uses group bind API, but it is using it only to
get group fd and nothing else. In context of NBL driver, this is the only
usage of VFIO API's in the driver, and it is not necessary to use it for
what NBL driver is trying to accomplish.

Use a direct `open()` call instead, and store the group fd in common
structure.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/nbl/nbl_common/nbl_userdev.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
drivers/net/nbl/nbl_include/nbl_include.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/nbl/nbl_common/nbl_userdev.c b/drivers/net/nbl/nbl_common/nbl_userdev.c
index 566f3a11ee..d641ecd9a8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/nbl/nbl_common/nbl_userdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/nbl/nbl_common/nbl_userdev.c
@@ -387,6 +387,13 @@ nbl_userdev_mem_event_callback(enum rte_mem_event type, const void *addr, size_t
}
}

+static int nbl_open_group_fd(int iommu_group_num)
+{
+ char path[PATH_MAX];
+ snprintf(path, sizeof(path), RTE_VFIO_GROUP_FMT, iommu_group_num);
+ return open(path, O_RDWR);
+}
+
static int nbl_mdev_map_device(struct nbl_adapter *adapter)
{
const struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev = adapter->pci_dev;
@@ -424,11 +431,12 @@ static int nbl_mdev_map_device(struct nbl_adapter *adapter)
}

NBL_LOG(DEBUG, "nbl vfio container %d", container);
- vfio_group_fd = rte_vfio_container_group_bind(container, common->iommu_group_num);
+ vfio_group_fd = nbl_open_group_fd(common->iommu_group_num);
if (vfio_group_fd < 0) {
NBL_LOG(ERR, "nbl vfio group bind failed, %d", vfio_group_fd);
goto free_container;
}
+ common->groupfd = vfio_group_fd;

/* check if the group is viable */
ret = ioctl(vfio_group_fd, VFIO_GROUP_GET_STATUS, &group_status);
@@ -535,7 +543,6 @@ static int nbl_mdev_map_device(struct nbl_adapter *adapter)
}
free_group:
close(vfio_group_fd);
- rte_vfio_clear_group(vfio_group_fd);
free_container:
if (container_create)
rte_vfio_container_destroy(container);
@@ -549,17 +556,14 @@ static int nbl_mdev_unmap_device(struct nbl_adapter *adapter)

close(common->devfd);
rte_mcfg_mem_read_lock();
- vfio_group_fd = rte_vfio_container_group_bind(nbl_default_container,
- common->iommu_group_num);
+ vfio_group_fd = common->groupfd;
NBL_LOG(DEBUG, "close vfio_group_fd %d", vfio_group_fd);
ret = ioctl(vfio_group_fd, VFIO_GROUP_UNSET_CONTAINER, &nbl_default_container);
if (ret)
NBL_LOG(ERR, "unset container, error %i (%s) %d",
errno, strerror(errno), ret);
nbl_group_count--;
- ret = rte_vfio_container_group_unbind(nbl_default_container, common->iommu_group_num);
- if (ret)
- NBL_LOG(ERR, "vfio container group unbind failed %d", ret);
+ close(vfio_group_fd);
if (!nbl_group_count) {
rte_mem_event_callback_unregister(NBL_USERDEV_EVENT_CLB_NAME, NULL);
nbl_userdev_dma_free();
diff --git a/drivers/net/nbl/nbl_include/nbl_include.h b/drivers/net/nbl/nbl_include/nbl_include.h
index eeae6a3301..ba99b9f8e7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/nbl/nbl_include/nbl_include.h
+++ b/drivers/net/nbl/nbl_include/nbl_include.h
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ struct nbl_common_info {
u16 vsi_id;
u16 instance_id;
int devfd;
+ int groupfd;
int eventfd;
int ifindex;
int iommu_group_num;
--
2.47.3