Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Vincent JARDIN [mailto:vincent.jar...@6wind.com] > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 9:46 PM > To: Chen, Jing D <jing.d.c...@intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon > <thomas.monja...@6wind.com> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing > <jingjing...@intel.com>; Zhang, Helin <helin.zh...@intel.com> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 00/29] Support VFD and DPDK PF + kernel VF > on > i40e > > Le 19/12/2016 à 14:39, Chen, Jing D a écrit : > > They will > > have concern why VM can have such privilege (like promisc mode). But I need > > to check as I know there is some mechanism now to make a VM privileged. > > From iproute2's man: > <-- > trust on|off - trust the specified VF user. This enables that VF user > can set a specific feature which may impact security and/or performance. > (e.g. VF multicast promiscuous mode) > --> > > So yes, it is possible to get PF features upstream'd into the kernel > without having a specific PF into DPDK.
That's a collaboration with another team. we'll follow-up that but not guarantee it will happen. May I ask if my reply make it clear? Still NAC for this patch?
