On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 09:23:31AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Since Linux kernel is going to drop support for iopl real soon now. > Is there any ongoing effort to either drop Legacy virtio support,
I think it's not a good idea to drop the legacy virtio support at present. > or replace iopl with ioperm, +1. This looks like the most straightforward way for now. > or at least test with iopl failing? The iopl failing test was just moved to rte_pci_ioport_map() by below series: https://patches.dpdk.org/cover/61627/ > > Note: it looks like the current code does not match comment. > > /* > * Request iopl privilege for all RPL, returns 0 on success > * iopl() call is mostly for the i386 architecture. For other architectures, > * return -1 to indicate IO privilege can't be changed in this way. > */ > int > rte_eal_iopl_init(void) > { > #if defined(RTE_ARCH_X86) > if (iopl(3) != 0) > return -1; > #endif > return 0; > }
