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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] virtio-net: bind systematically on all non
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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?