Hi, Shijith VF init error will happen after apply your patch, error log as below. If revert your commit, all things work well. And this issue is not only occur in i40 VF but also ixgbe. Could you help to check it soon?
[root@localhost app]# ./testpmd -c 7 -n 4 -- -i EAL: Detected 10 lcore(s) EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB EAL: Probing VFIO support... EAL: WARNING: cpu flags constant_tsc=yes nonstop_tsc=no -> using unreliable clock cycles ! EAL: PCI device 0000:00:03.0 on NUMA socket -1 EAL: Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0 EAL: probe driver: 8086:154c net_i40e_vf i40evf_init_vf(): init_adminq failed: -53 i40evf_dev_init(): Init vf failed EAL: Requested device 0000:00:03.0 cannot be used commit b58eedfc7dd57eef6d12e2c654a52c834f36084a Author: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thot...@caviumnetworks.com> Date: Fri Jul 7 16:43:51 2017 +0530 igb_uio: issue FLR during open and release of device file Set UIO info device file operations open and release. Call pci reset function inside open and release to clear device state at start and end. Copied this behaviour from vfio_pci kernel module code. With this patch, it is not mandatory to issue FLR by PMD's during init and close. Bus master enable and disable are added in open and release respectively to take care of device DMA. Signed-off-by: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thot...@caviumnetworks.com> Reviewed-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng....@intel.com> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> Acked-by: Gregory Etelson <greg...@weka.io> Best Regard, Yang Qiming