[PATCH v12 12/20] vhost: remove group-related API from driver
From: Anatoly Burakov <hidden>
Date: 2026-08-25 13:22:49
Subsystem:
library code, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds
The vDPA driver API has "get_vfio_group_fd" in its ops structure, but no driver is using it any more, as better API's were added and implemented. Remove this API from vDPA ops structure. Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <redacted> --- doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst | 4 ---- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ---- lib/vhost/vdpa_driver.h | 3 --- 3 files changed, 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
index 345a621716..99355b8afd 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst@@ -471,10 +471,6 @@ Finally, a set of device ops is defined for device specific operations: Called to allow the device to respond to RARP sending. -* ``get_vfio_group_fd`` - - Called to get the VFIO group fd of the device. - * ``get_vfio_device_fd`` Called to get the VFIO device fd of the device.
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 8a82c815e3..e4a754d037 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst@@ -29,10 +29,6 @@ Deprecation Notices Use the ``-S <service-corelist>`` parameter instead to specify the cores to be used for background services in DPDK. -* vdpa: The vDPA driver API will no longer offer ``get_vfio_group_fd`` - as part of its internal API. All drivers will be adjusted - to use the new unified VFIO container device assignment API. - * rte_atomicNN_xxx: These APIs do not take memory order parameter. This does not allow for writing optimized code for all the CPU architectures supported in DPDK. DPDK has adopted the atomic operations from
diff --git a/lib/vhost/vdpa_driver.h b/lib/vhost/vdpa_driver.h
index 42392a0d14..c7b9be09fb 100644
--- a/lib/vhost/vdpa_driver.h
+++ b/lib/vhost/vdpa_driver.h@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ struct rte_vdpa_dev_ops { /** Destination operations when migration done */ int (*migration_done)(int vid); - /** Get the vfio group fd */ - int (*get_vfio_group_fd)(int vid); - /** Get the vfio device fd */ int (*get_vfio_device_fd)(int vid);
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