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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] vfio: use the generic multi-process
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:52:41 +0000
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On 25-Jan-18 10:47 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 25/01/2018 05:16, Jianfeng Tan:
>> Previously, vfio uses its own private channel for the secondary
>> process to get container fd and group fd from the primary process.
>>
>> This patch changes to use the generic mp channel.
> 
> There was a private request to get it in 18.02-rc2.
> 
> I have 3 concerns:
> 1/ It is late
> 2/ It is not yet reviewed by Anatoly and Konstantin
> 3/ We try to not rework the existing code in RC2,
> because it would totally invalidate the validation work
> done for RC1.
> 
> 

Hi Thomas,

We can postpone the VFIO patch until 18.05, and integrate only the first 
two patches. First two patches do not change anything in DPDK, so 
validation impact should be non-existent.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly