Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] add device removal event

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

18/04/2017 14:17, Gaetan Rivet:
> This new event represents the sudden removal of a device from its bus.
> The underlying resources exposed by the bus are expected not to be available
> anymore. The application should thus be able to react and possibly clean up
> related resources that it reserved for the removed device.
> 
> This event is different from the current hotplug API available in the DPDK
> for two reasons:
> 
> 1. It is a reactive design: the application reacts to a device that has been
> removed instead of removing a device from its pool.
> 
> 2. The event itself is going further than the current detaching of a device
>    from a DPDK application. If the bus is a hardware one, it is expected of
> the underlying resources to not be available anymore.
> 
> This series adds a new event type to ethdev and implements it in mlx4.
> Testpmd is also updated to report all asynchronous ethdev events including
> this one for testing purposes and as a practical usage example.
> 
> This series depends on the series titled
> [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx4: split the definitions to the header file
> 
> v1 --> v2:
>   * integrated the series with the new PCI rte_bus implementation.
> 
>   I planned on working out a more generic implementation of the RMV event
> for the v17.05, however while writing it I found that I had to evolve the
> support of interrupts in the PCI rte_bus, which did not seem wise at this
> point of the release cycle.
> 
>   I consider that this event should be generalized along the LSC event,
> going from pure PCI events to generic rte_bus events, given that they can
> be relevant to other busses (vdev at least). I would reserve this evolution
> for future release however, once a real discussion has taken place.
> 
> Gaetan Rivet (5):
>   ethdev: introduce device removal event
>   net/mlx4: device removal event support
>   app/testpmd: generic event handler
>   app/testpmd: request link status interrupt
>   app/testpmd: request device removal interrupt

Applied, thanks