From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.3] tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py: Verbosely warn the user on bind
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:38:34 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1640541.74OgNbrBZB@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALwxeUsdiiMUDLMGkECvQmsVkaHr3NWcdzKoHRRcwv6MsLLFRQ@mail.gmail.com>
2016-01-26 21:21, David Marchand:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
> > 2015-12-11 11:20, Aaron Conole:
> >> DPDK ports are only detected during the EAL initialization. After that, any
> >> new DPDK ports which are bound will not be visible to the application.
> >>
> >> The dpdk_nic_bind.py can be a bit more helpful to let users know that DPDK
> >> enabled applications will not find rebound ports until after they have been
> >> restarted.
> >
> > I think it's better to improve hotplug and allow hot binding.
> > A work is in progress towards this direction.
> > David, can you confirm?
>
> I intend to provide some rfc patches later this week, for next release.
These "auto-hotplug" patches won't be ready for 16.04.
But it's possible to use a new bound device with rte_eth_dev_attach().
So this patch is rejected.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-11 16:20 [PATCH 2.3] tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py: Verbosely warn the user on bind Aaron Conole
2016-01-26 19:25 ` Aaron Conole
2016-01-26 20:14 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-01-26 20:21 ` David Marchand
2016-03-01 8:38 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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