25/01/2018 11:52, Burakov, Anatoly: > On 25-Jan-18 10:47 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 25/01/2018 05:16, Jianfeng Tan: > >> Previously, vfio uses its own private channel for the secondary > >> process to get container fd and group fd from the primary process. > >> > >> This patch changes to use the generic mp channel. > > > > There was a private request to get it in 18.02-rc2. > > > > I have 3 concerns: > > 1/ It is late > > 2/ It is not yet reviewed by Anatoly and Konstantin > > 3/ We try to not rework the existing code in RC2, > > because it would totally invalidate the validation work > > done for RC1. > > > > > > Hi Thomas, > > We can postpone the VFIO patch until 18.05, and integrate only the first > two patches. First two patches do not change anything in DPDK, so > validation impact should be non-existent.
Yes, possible if it is well reviewed and all comments addressed.