From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com (dispatch1-us1.ppe-hosted.com [67.231.154.164]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8801B3B2 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:27:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Proofpoint Essentials engine Received: from webmail.solarflare.com (uk.solarflare.com [193.34.186.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1-us3.ppe-hosted.com (Proofpoint Essentials ESMTP Server) with ESMTPS id 10D35B8007C; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:27:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.38.17] (91.220.146.112) by ukex01.SolarFlarecom.com (10.17.10.4) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1395.4; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:26:57 +0100 To: Thomas Monjalon , CC: , , , References: <20180907230958.21402-1-thomas@monjalon.net> <20181011210251.7705-1-thomas@monjalon.net> From: Andrew Rybchenko Message-ID: Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:26:17 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181011210251.7705-1-thomas@monjalon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB X-Originating-IP: [91.220.146.112] X-ClientProxiedBy: ocex03.SolarFlarecom.com (10.20.40.36) To ukex01.SolarFlarecom.com (10.17.10.4) X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-12.5.0.1300-8.5.1010-24150.003 X-TM-AS-Result: No-3.008300-8.000000-10 X-TMASE-MatchedRID: 5+1rHnqhWUQOwH4pD14DsPHkpkyUphL9zXOot9n7ZXzxO7utA8UvleeR 8WKM/B4xIWzbnoLtORvQ25P0tCrXU4BVoVrrdHC9SHCU59h5KrH03H/AL/kEgJsoi2XrUn/JyeM tMD9QOgADpAZ2/B/Blg1fA1QHegDv3QfwsVk0UbsIoUKaF27lxWOXSbF6QG/51U3Fs1oyW90bTu 7YkAm2xWu+wQOEcXK5cd/463m6mIM/HSFR8Nwv31B765+Rr0fe5c2z03oeB8ZKerBPjUQ0AKKAQ fLsnhLrKWSt4DmvbhpicKLmK2TeKmsPn5C6nWpTnqg/VrSZEiM= X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: Yes X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No X-TMASE-Result: 10--3.008300-8.000000 X-TMASE-Version: SMEX-12.5.0.1300-8.5.1010-24150.003 X-MDID: 1539336423-MeNnpwq57Ynt Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/4] eal: allow hotplug to skip an already probed device 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, 12 Oct 2018 09:27:04 -0000 On 10/12/18 12:02 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > This is a follow-up of an idea presented at Dublin > during the "hotplug talk". > > The idea is to ease probing of range of ports attached > to the same rte_device. > I becomes possible to allow probing again the same device > but with a bigger range of ports in the devargs. > > Instead of adding a parameter to the hotplug functions, as in the RFC, > the check of an already probed device is moved to the bus and enabled PMDs. > It gives flexibility to drivers for managing range of ports. For the series: Tested-by: Andrew Rybchenko As I underestand it requires fix for szedata2 and has open questions for mlx5, bnx2x, cxgbe and testpmd.