From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7AD21B020 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:52:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 515D320D9F; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:52:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:52:18 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=WxW9MuNTSXItMnNHCRHKEuQmvr sRP0wHgGJPyJsjcBw=; b=aUJEvaQTTEenkbTeqSNX0vi9ZP/1sFiuNcmCGFPJrY OQBg5K0qTbb/KC9a6QhI69wsXZPggExUVJ0krS1BhfJqrkuzH+cdw1O4hYCXYnor ESeR1vC9UKewOl0dhBnzuTjl6goXUg50eG59dFD6VqeJ5MScxck2IUOEbMTM4dl1 o= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=WxW9Mu NTSXItMnNHCRHKEuQmvrsRP0wHgGJPyJsjcBw=; b=dv/hX/hRqC05xRaI3i2qIc 0rA4csvUMTqNtvvcjwLdS0UvJRKJTdZgeEx0HiAkjJE3QY/DyAA7VEsK3wjACLTl 468nHaAAoCkaPniOQm81ixKzvlC8Q1UTI8FtErUYX3Sh0kcEMk7mllF+yWxGusG5 7KJ80tnaVyj+n+4x0IkiP2DxzQtIiXASyOjQUVHzOj+QoZw3T5YNXtbzT/NNY4jp 8blY7KnIH4sX4GqVqW4Ifqa2DX2Gsd/y/N2pukpBC4RgL+/Gad8F2SvKLkeeODrF ej8IDo8GzmpL22Q5LMrSu1OlKdy9gEuJ/JWstBf6X+wq9dVOI2TaJz/VN5rF9umA == X-ME-Sender: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EA0657E349; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:52:17 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Matan Azrad , Stephen Hemminger , Ferruh Yigit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Adrien Mazarguil Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 17:51:45 +0100 Message-ID: <1755633.d9O1ru5VWe@xps> In-Reply-To: References: <20171222173846.20731-1-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> <20180109104916.5919eebe@xeon-e3> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/8] net/vdev_netvsc: implement core functionality X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:52:19 -0000 10/01/2018 16:02, Matan Azrad: > From: Stephen Hemminger, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 8:49 PM > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 14:47:30 +0000 > > Matan Azrad wrote: > > > + ret = rte_eal_alarm_set(VDEV_NETVSC_PROBE_MS * 1000, > > > + vdev_netvsc_alarm, NULL); > > > + if (ret < 0) { > > > + DRV_LOG(ERR, "unable to reschedule alarm callback: %s", > > > + rte_strerror(-ret)); > > > + } > > > +} > > > > Why not use netlink uevent? > > As described in doc, we can improve the hotplug mechanism(here and in fail-safe) after EAL hotplug work will be done. > So, maybe in next release we will change it to use uevent by EAL hotplug. I don't see any progress here for one week. Yes it is a temporary solution waiting for hotplug event callback in EAL. Hopefully it will be possible to do such improvements in 18.05. Am I missing something else? Or can it be applied to next-net?