[dpdk-dev] ixgbevf does not recover from pf reset

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Mon Jan 25 16:05:14 CET 2016


Hello Jingjing,

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Yes. But just consider about how to use DPDK on eth device. During bring up we need:
> eth_dev_init
> rte_pktmbuf_pool_create
> rte_eth_dev_configure
> rte_eth_rx_queue_setup
> rte_eth_tx_queue_setup
> rte_eth_dev_start
>
> All above behavior need to be called by application, pmd driver cannot did all the
> Recovery without application's help.

Well, that is if the only solution is to restart the port from the application.
The linux i40e vf driver handles this kind of event itself.
Could we have something similar ?


Regards,
-- 
David Marchand


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