On 5/23/2018 1:28 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote: > DPDK apps can be executed as non-root users but current NFP lock > file for avoiding concurrent accesses to CPP interface is precluding > this option or requires to modify system file permissions. > > When the NFP device is bound to VFIO, this driver does not allow this > concurrent access, so the lock file is not required at all. > > OVS-DPDK as executed in RedHat distributions is the main NFP user > needing this fix. > > Fixes: c7e9729da6b5 ("net/nfp: support CPP") > > Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.luc...@netronome.com>
Hi Alejandro, As far as I understand this is to fix a common use case for nfp, but it looks like there is already a workaround and only for non-root users. What is the priority of the patch, only critical but fixes allowed at this point, can we push this one to next release? Thanks, ferruh