From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Franck Baudin <franck.baudin@qosmos.com>,
"Ouyang, Changchun" <changchun.ouyang@intel.com>,
huawei.xie@intel.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] virtio-net: bind systematically on all non blacklisted virtio-net devices
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 17:08:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1569737.1ykgx8Ghpo@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55F177D4.5010701@qosmos.com>
2015-09-10 14:30, Franck Baudin:
> On 09/09/15 04:11, Ouyang, Changchun wrote:
> >> virtio-net driver bind on all virtio-net devices, even if the devices are used by
> >> the kernel (leading to kernel soft-lookup/panic). One way around is to
> >> blacklist the ports in use by Linux. This is the case since v2.0.0, in fact since
> >> commit da978dfdc43b59e290a46d7ece5fd19ce79a1162
> >> and the removal of the RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING driver flag.
> >
> > It allows virtio-pmd not necessarily depend on igb_uio, this is which characteristic other pmd drivers don't have.
>
> Thanks for your answer,
>
> So this is the expected behaviour: all virtio interfaces are bound to
> the pmd driver.
>
> Don't you think that dpdk_nic_bind.py should reflect the driver
> behaviour, and that the virtio documentation (still referencing igb_uio)
> be amended?
Yes maybe that the documentation must be updated.
Anyone?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-01 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-08 8:23 Franck Baudin
2015-09-09 2:11 ` Ouyang, Changchun
2015-09-10 12:30 ` Franck Baudin
2015-10-01 15:08 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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