v3: Address comments by Bruce Richardson:
- Remove the section for using UIO with older kernels.
- Move the note about legacy virtio to virtio doc.
- Advertise vfio-pci usage to avoid physical addresses
(still unclear whether and when it requires IPC_LOCK).
- Fix typo.
v2: Address comments by Stephen Hemminger:
- Use hugetlbfs options instead of chown.
- Suggest using OS or container runtime where possible.
- Improve wording.
Add SYS_RAWIO requirement for legacy virtio.
Explain SYS_RAWIO requirement for MLX5 PMD.
Dmitry Kozlyuk (5):
usertools: add option to select hugetlbfs directory
usertools: add option to change mount point owner
doc: give specific instructions for running as non-root
doc: update instructions for running as non-root for MLX5
doc: add note about running virtio-legacy as non-root
doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst | 89 +++++++++++++------
doc/guides/nics/virtio.rst | 3 +
doc/guides/platform/mlx5.rst | 31 ++++---
.../prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst | 2 +
usertools/dpdk-hugepages.py | 20 ++++-
5 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
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