It seems none is working on this VFIO support. I will work on this if there is no reply to this thread saying the opposite the next days.
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Eelco Chaudron <echaud...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/02/17 13:05, Burakov, Anatoly wrote: > >> Hi Eelco, >> >> Please forgive me my ignorance on this matter, but doesn't it work at the >> moment? I would assume that if regular PCI hotplug works (with igb_uio), >> then so would hotplug with VFIO, as it basically utilizes the same PCI >> infrastructure igb_uio does. That said, I'm not aware of any patches >> submitted that had to do with VFIO and hotplug, so I guess the answer is, >> not at the moment. >> >> Thanks, >> Anatoly >> > I was asking as the documentation explicitly mentions its not supported. > http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/port_hotplug_framework.html#hotplug > > - "To detach a port, the port should be backed by a device that igb_uio > manages. VFIO is not supported." > > I could not find any specific reason why it's not supported, so if some > one can explain this it would help also... > > Cheers, > > Eelco > > >
