[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] usertools: add hv_uio_setup script

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Apr 5 22:43:39 CEST 2018


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.




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