From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] usertools: add hv_uio_setup script
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 23:13:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21769641.JDxLthIqDH@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180405140329.3595edb8@xeon-e3>
05/04/2018 23:03, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:43:39 +0200
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> > 05/04/2018 21:13, Stephen Hemminger:
> > > Small script to rebind netvsc kernel device to Hyper-V
> > > networking PMD. It could be integrated in dpdk-bind, but dpdk-bind
> > > is focused on PCI, and that would get messy.
> > >
> > > Eventually, this functionality will be built into netvsc driver
> > > (see vdev_netvsc as an example).
> >
> > I believe we should avoid creating such script.
> > The direction to go, for hotplug, is to remove dpdk-devbind.py,
> > and implement kernel binding in PMDs (with EAL helpers).
> >
> > In order to make this change happen, we should not
> > add this hv_uio_setup.sh script.
>
> Yes, this is a temporary script like dpdk-bind, want to get rid of it
> and do everything inside driver. That is the next step.
If this is temporary, it is a step in the wrong direction which
could confuse users.
If it becomes definitive (design discussion in progress), then it should
be merged in dpdk-devbind.py.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-05 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-05 19:13 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] add Hyper-V bus and network driver Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-05 19:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] bus/vmbus: add hyper-v virtual bus support Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-05 19:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] usertools: add hv_uio_setup script Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-05 20:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-04-05 21:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-05 21:13 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-04-05 21:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-05 21:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-05 22:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-05 21:07 ` Bruce Richardson
2018-04-05 21:10 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-04-05 22:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-05 23:57 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-04-06 0:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-06 8:38 ` Bruce Richardson
2018-04-05 19:13 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] net/netvsc: add hyper-v netvsc network device Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-05 20:52 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-04-05 20:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-04-05 21:07 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-04-05 21:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
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