From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Prashant Upadhyaya <prashant.upadhyaya@aricent.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Regarding VM live migration with SRIOV
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:24:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131126222411.41d0e8fd@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C7CE7EEF248E2B48BBA63D0ABEEE700C45DFEF1DED@GUREXMB01.ASIAN.AD.ARICENT.COM>
On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:39:28 +0530
Prashant Upadhyaya <prashant.upadhyaya@aricent.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> The rte_eal_pci_probe is typically called at the startup.
>
> Now let's say a DPDK application is running with a PCI device (doing tx and rx) and I remove that PCI device underneath (hot plugout)
> So how does the application now know that the device is gone ?
>
> Is it that rte_eal_pci_probe should be called periodically from, let's say, the slow control path of the DPDK application ?
>
> Regards
> -Prashant
>
Like I said current code doesn't do hotplug.
If you wanted to add it, you would have to refactor the PCI management layer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-27 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-25 14:01 Prashant Upadhyaya
2013-11-27 4:39 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2013-11-27 4:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-11-27 6:09 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
2013-11-27 6:24 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2013-11-29 5:55 ` Prashant Upadhyaya
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