From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f44.google.com (mail-wm0-f44.google.com [74.125.82.44]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ACBD9AA4 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 09:38:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f44.google.com with SMTP id l68so22662718wml.1 for ; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:38:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:organization:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OU0//vldFvXd/deBCbjt1D9UQLaDZxRJ2jBxs0vpOKs=; b=L0/foJDAeLyjVxCFR3C78rtg+gKDlGa5vHnCT9WtZPwm6NSFhfX2j52Tu0kJvjZwGc xYmRs6jGfR5M6tnaBHfS185xfzBwj7zwcESJdu8R5Oik/rjnN0UOvtVs6O0Z1bj4YT7w a7ki+lyH0D3QwXh55vl8RSgxaDMv8yDMrQmOg3hJawhqNQCqocxt3sMugULnZ22Z/Aav CiMZyn5mEfvZ+Y97hrJn7LozFCcr46GOsKsmiOVaHn2HoAG9VO5Qwg9hNyZ41jPxt6qI 5p3NfIaMNz05pIYEq7vlTLJxt9VccIpqrLrm92wgTRWMNuHEa1Jkh9CSFqfkqeOn/gsk j6GA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OU0//vldFvXd/deBCbjt1D9UQLaDZxRJ2jBxs0vpOKs=; b=E8g4DZI7eMXTZiq75wTrmPqEl6j/JZDAIwLbpa3fnbyAiMAnn0FdyZbdFGHt9/vaCd iFmbgWm6/PVtXEXEP6aPamq3FvjWYpi3JO8ucYDxIMIpH81YBTraWncudfaIFmgJp666 ngTjxJ6dbTDwP0emPpy5xAgkSysHMFkgAac8mxwINxQ7As3y2vjErEmaoAHcGdbFbmwH JzS1HScP3SWIFYcx29rIHwJIUsTb3yazPBctXyMFzNIYCBNtWNs/GWOdR/JQFL7CYrsH 8W5i/VtFctSZjsQ9bivHxLnPejFqLfSRfh/ucbZSH9VqEXXjQRYEHwK8L+LL7BQ6WQKD Lglw== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJJqiY/j7PFoD937Xu4XEiRcENMKR7lEcAY5n2f3SHN10UaaRbwB3Uuy3S00czctVu3p X-Received: by 10.28.223.69 with SMTP id w66mr2464352wmg.89.1456821515309; Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:38:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (238.202.154.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.154.202.238]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k124sm20080841wmb.11.2016.03.01.00.38.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:38:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:38:34 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:37 +0100 From: Thomas Monjalon To: Aaron Conole Message-ID: <1640541.74OgNbrBZB@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1449850823-29017-1-git-send-email-aconole@redhat.com> <2190233.dCyjSQMtc6@xps13> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2.3] tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py: Verbosely warn the user on bind X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 08:38:35 -0000 2016-01-26 21:21, David Marchand: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Thomas Monjalon > wrote: > > 2015-12-11 11:20, Aaron Conole: > >> DPDK ports are only detected during the EAL initialization. After that, any > >> new DPDK ports which are bound will not be visible to the application. > >> > >> The dpdk_nic_bind.py can be a bit more helpful to let users know that DPDK > >> enabled applications will not find rebound ports until after they have been > >> restarted. > > > > I think it's better to improve hotplug and allow hot binding. > > A work is in progress towards this direction. > > David, can you confirm? > > I intend to provide some rfc patches later this week, for next release. These "auto-hotplug" patches won't be ready for 16.04. But it's possible to use a new bound device with rte_eth_dev_attach(). So this patch is rejected.