From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>, david.marchand@6wind.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2.3] tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py: Verbosely warn the user on bind
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:14:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2190233.dCyjSQMtc6@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449850823-29017-1-git-send-email-aconole@redhat.com>
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?
Is this patch still valuable in the meantime?
> --- a/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py
> +++ b/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py
> @@ -344,8 +344,10 @@ def bind_one(dev_id, driver, force):
> dev["Driver_str"] = "" # clear driver string
>
> # if we are binding to one of DPDK drivers, add PCI id's to that driver
> + bDpdkDriver = False
Please do not use camel case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-26 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-11 16:20 Aaron Conole
2016-01-26 20:14 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-01-26 20:21 ` David Marchand
2016-03-01 8:38 ` Thomas Monjalon
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