Russell Bryant writes:
> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> After this commit, users may start a dpdk-enabled ovs setup as a
>> non-root user. This is accomplished by exporting the $HOME directory,
>> which dpdk uses to fill in it's semi-persistent RTE configuration.
>>
>> This change may be a bit controversial since it modifies /dev/hugepages
>> as part of starting the ovs-vswitchd to set a hugetlbfs group
>> ownership. This is used to enable writing to /dev/hugepages so that the
>> dpdk_init will successfully complete. There is an alternate way of
>> accomplishing this - namely to initialize DPDK before dropping
>> privileges. However, this would mean that if DPDK ever grows an uninit
>> / reinit function, non-root ovs likely could never use it.
>
> Indeed ... the modifications to /dev/hugepages don't look ideal ...
>
> If this was truly limited to when DPDK was in use, I'd feel better
> about it. We want to build a single package for OVS, right? The
> package will have DPDK enabled, even for normal uses that won't use
> DPDK. That means these modifications take place even for non-DPDK
> use. I'd feel more comfortable if it could be restricted to only when
> DPDK was actually in use. Maybe some of this logic could be moved
> into ovs-ctl so that the check could be at runtime?
I couldn't find a way of doing that check. It is possible to
dynamically enable dpdk (since commit ec2b070143c2 "dpdk: Late
initialization"), which means we would need something constantly polling
for the status change -OR- we would need to have a way of changing gid
in response to the database change. The second might be possible but
would require some changes in ovs-vswitchd.
>>
>> This does not change OvS+DPDK's SELinux requirements. It still must be
>> disabled.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole
>> ---
>> Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst| 7 +++
>> NEWS| 1 +
>> rhel/README.RHEL.rst| 11 +++
>> rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in | 13 +
>> rhel/usr_lib_systemd_system_ovs-vswitchd.service.in | 5 +
>> 5 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
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