[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] Enable uio_pci_generic support

2014-11-17 Thread Bruce Richardson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 01:48:02AM +0800, Danny Zhou wrote: > Linux kernel provides UIO as well as VFIO mechanism to support writing user > space device driver. Comparing to UIO which is available since 2.6.32 kernel, > the VFIO is introduced into kernel since version 3.6.0 with better interrupt >

[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] Enable uio_pci_generic support

2014-10-28 Thread Qiu, Michael
Tested-by: Michael Qiu ? 10/28/2014 1:49 AM, Danny Zhou ??: > Linux kernel provides UIO as well as VFIO mechanism to support writing user > space device driver. Comparing to UIO which is available since 2.6.32 kernel, > the VFIO is introduced into kernel since version 3.6.0 with better interrupt

[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] Enable uio_pci_generic support

2014-10-28 Thread Danny Zhou
Linux kernel provides UIO as well as VFIO mechanism to support writing user space device driver. Comparing to UIO which is available since 2.6.32 kernel, the VFIO is introduced into kernel since version 3.6.0 with better interrupt and memory protection (build on top of Intel VT-d technology) suppor