Hi Sujith, > One aspect of ENIC PMD is that it works with VFIO-PCI and not UIO. Hope > this is acceptable. The following thread in dpdk-dev influenced this > decision. > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2013-July/000373.html
You may find this [1] patchset interesting. Basically, it adds native support for VFIO to do the binding and unbinding in DPDK. Whether it fits your purposes depends on your code, but hopefully you'll be able to simplify your code. [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-May/002568.html Best regards, Anatoly Burakov DPDK SW Engineer