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Chao Ye 2016-09-21 07:43:34 UTC CC cye
Jeff Nelson 2016-09-22 15:58:58 UTC Status NEW MODIFIED
Fixed In Version kmod-vfio-0.3-3.el7fdb.x86_64.rpm
errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-22 23:45:05 UTC Status MODIFIED ON_QA
juzhang 2016-09-23 22:59:34 UTC Flags needinfo?(cye)
Marie Hornickova 2016-10-11 13:54:15 UTC Docs Contact mdolezel
Doc Text This update adds No-IOMMU mode for virtual function I/O (VFIO) drivers. The No-IOMMU mode provides the user with full user-space I/O (UIO) access to a direct memory access (DMA)-capable device without a I/O memory management unit (IOMMU). In this version, the No-IOMMU mode is not supported, and thus using this mode is not secure due to the lack of I/O management provided by IOMMU.
Doc Type If docs needed, set a value Enhancement
jiaoyang 2016-10-11 14:29:23 UTC Status ON_QA VERIFIED
CC jiaoyang
Marie Hornickova 2016-10-11 14:32:57 UTC Docs Contact mdolezel
Doc Text This update adds No-IOMMU mode for virtual function I/O (VFIO) drivers. The No-IOMMU mode provides the user with full user-space I/O (UIO) access to a direct memory access (DMA)-capable device without a I/O memory management unit (IOMMU). In this version, the No-IOMMU mode is not supported, and thus using this mode is not secure due to the lack of I/O management provided by IOMMU.
Panu Matilainen 2016-10-12 04:54:55 UTC CC pmatilai
Karen Noel 2016-10-12 12:31:12 UTC Doc Text No-IOMMU mode for VFIO drivers

As a Technology Preview, this update adds No-IOMMU mode for virtual function I/O (VFIO) drivers. The No-IOMMU mode provides the user with full user-space I/O (UIO) access to a direct memory access (DMA)-capable device without a I/O memory management unit (IOMMU). Note that in addition to not being supported, using this mode is not secure due to the lack of I/O management provided by IOMMU.
Alex Williamson 2016-10-12 12:56:46 UTC Doc Text No-IOMMU mode for VFIO drivers

As a Technology Preview, this update adds No-IOMMU mode for virtual function I/O (VFIO) drivers. The No-IOMMU mode provides the user with full user-space I/O (UIO) access to a direct memory access (DMA)-capable device without a I/O memory management unit (IOMMU). Note that in addition to not being supported, using this mode is not secure due to the lack of I/O management provided by IOMMU.
No-IOMMU mode for VFIO drivers

As a Technology Preview, this update adds No-IOMMU mode for virtual function I/O (VFIO) drivers. The No-IOMMU mode provides the user with full user-space I/O access to a direct memory access (DMA)-capable device without a I/O memory management unit (IOMMU). Note that in addition to not being supported, using this mode is not secure and will taint the kernel due to the lack of I/O management provided by IOMMU.
Whitney Chadwick 2016-10-13 18:55:08 UTC Blocks 1383822
Jiri Herrmann 2016-10-14 16:12:05 UTC Doc Text No-IOMMU mode for VFIO drivers

As a Technology Preview, this update adds No-IOMMU mode for virtual function I/O (VFIO) drivers. The No-IOMMU mode provides the user with full user-space I/O access to a direct memory access (DMA)-capable device without a I/O memory management unit (IOMMU). Note that in addition to not being supported, using this mode is not secure and will taint the kernel due to the lack of I/O management provided by IOMMU.
As a Technology Preview, this update adds No-IOMMU mode for virtual function I/O (VFIO) drivers. No-IOMMU mode provides the user with full user-space I/O (UIO) access to a direct memory access (DMA)-capable device without a I/O memory management unit (IOMMU). Note that in addition to not being supported, using this mode is not secure, due to the the lack of I/O management provided by IOMMU.

However, it is recommended to use the VFIO No-IOMMU driver instead of UIO drivers, such as uio_pci_generic or igb_uio, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests that use the Data Plane Development Toolkit (DPDK) on hosts that use any of the following:

- Single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV)
- Open vSwitch-accelerated Data Plane Development Toolkit (OVS-DPDK)
errata-xmlrpc 2016-10-14 17:02:59 UTC Status VERIFIED RELEASE_PENDING
Chao Ye 2016-11-29 02:16:25 UTC Flags needinfo?(cye)

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