TBH I'm not sure the whitelist should be required. Sounds like a bug, I'll take a look.

D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nabarro, Tom <tom.nabarro(a)intel.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 1, 2020 3:00 PM
> To: Storage Performance Development Kit <spdk(a)lists.01.org>
> Subject: [SPDK] Re: vfio multiple processes
> 
> Resolved by adding pci whitelist into spdk_env_opts.
> Adding whitelist into nvme.conf was not sufficient.
> 
> Regards,
> Tom Nabarro - DCG/ESAD
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> Skype: tom.nabarro
> 
> From: Nabarro, Tom
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:42 PM
> To: 'Storage Performance Development Kit' <spdk(a)lists.01.org>
> Subject: vfio multiple processes
> 
> Can't run multiple SPDK processes each accessing disjoint set of NVMe drives
> using VFIO driver (even as root). Each process seems to try to access all
> /dev/vfio/* device files and get lots of resource busy messages. Sometimes
> one of the processes complaint it can't find the device it's been assigned in
> nvme.conf.
> 
> Have any ideas?
> (processes are started in normal, non-multiprocess mode)
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Best regards,
> Tom Nabarro BEng (hons)
> Extreme Storage Architecture & Development
> Intel Corporation
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