Re: [dpdk-dev] White listing a virtual device

[Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 01:13:37PM +0000, Nicolas Pernas Maradei wrote:
> On 07/11/14 12:55, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >It's by design. If you add a vdev, you want to use it and there is no
> >reason to whitelist it, and especially no reason to blacklist a device
> >you created for your usage.
> >
> >Do you agree?
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Generally speaking you probably won't want to white list a virtual device -
> just using it. However it does seem an inconsistency in the design that you
> could add virtual devices but you can't white list them. If they are added
> to the main device list they should be treated just as another device.
> 
> In our particular use case we want to white list a pcap device to ensure
> that it is the only available port for testing.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nico.
> 

Then you create the pcap device with --vdev, and simply don't load the pmds for
any of your physical devices (or just don't use pci-whitelist at all if you're
doing a static build).  If you do that, then the corresponding niantic driver
won't initialize any of the hardware, you'll only get the pcap port.

Neil