From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E12377A for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 16:59:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga006.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.20]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 21 Apr 2017 07:59:26 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.37,230,1488873600"; d="scan'208";a="92645537" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.59]) ([10.237.220.59]) by fmsmga006.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Apr 2017 07:59:24 -0700 To: Gaetan Rivet Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Elad Persiko , Thomas Monjalon , Olivier MATZ , Billy McFall References: From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <923e5a49-6514-4a28-fb89-81e196ae99c9@intel.com> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:59:24 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/5] ethdev: introduce device removal event 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: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:59:27 -0000 On 4/18/2017 1:17 PM, Gaetan Rivet wrote: > This new API allows reacting to a device removal. > A device removal is the sudden disappearance of a device from its > bus. > > PMDs implementing support for this notification guarantee that the removal > of the underlying device does not incur a risk to the application. > > In particular, Rx/Tx bursts and all other functions can still be called > (albeit likely returning errors) without triggering a crash, irrespective > of an application handling this event. > > Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet > Signed-off-by: Elad Persiko <...> > diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini > index b1b9114..cafc6c7 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini > +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/default.ini > @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ > Speed capabilities = > Link status = > Link status event = > +Removal event = > Queue status event = > Rx interrupt = > Free Tx mbuf on demand = This release a few NIC features added, and it is hard to follow them if you are particularly looking for these features. So do you think does it make sense to put those new PMD features into release notes to make it more visible? Thanks, ferruh