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

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Thu Apr 5 23:07:34 CEST 2018


On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 10:43:39PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon 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).
>
I'm not convinced at all that that is the direction to go. I instead would
prefer to see all binding happen outside DPDK. I believe having udev or
similar manage bindings, set up via e.g driverctl[1], is a far better path.

Just my 2c.
/Bruce

[1] https://gitlab.com/driverctl/driverctl


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