07/11/2019 06:02, Jerin Jacob: > On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 4:03 AM Alex Williamson > <alex.william...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Ideas have been suggested > > upstream for for quarantining VFs generated from user owned PFs such > > that we require an opt-in to make use of them in this way. Nobody > > seems to be pursuing such ideas upstream. I don't even see upstream > > proposals to add a scary sounding module option to vfio-pci that would > > taint the kernel, but make this available. If nothing else, please > > remove the vfio name from this abomination, it has nothing to do with > > vfio other than to try to subvert the security and isolation that vfio > > attempts to provide. > > Thanks for the feedback. Let's hold on accepting this patch. > > We would like to have an upstream solution so that DPDK needs to only focus > on userspace. > > I will work on submitting a patch for the discussion in Linux upstream. > Let see how the discussion goes, Based on the that, We can revisit > fate of this module.
Just to be clear, vfio_pf is on hold, i.e. not merged in DPDK 19.11.
