[dpdk-dev] Regarding VM live migration with SRIOV

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:09:09 +0530
Prashant Upadhyaya <prashant.upadhyaya at aricent.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Let me be more specific.
> Does DPDK support hot plugin/plugout of PCI devices ?
> What typically needs to be done if this is to be achieved inside an application.
> 
> Typically, the NIC PF or VF appears to the DPDK application as a PCI device which is probed at startup.
> Now what happens if I insert a new VF dynamically and want to use it inside the DPDK application (while it is already running), how should this typically be done ? [hotplugin]
> And what happens if the DPDK application is in control of a PCI device and that PCI device is suddenly removed ? How can the application detect this and stop doing data transfer on this and sort of unload it ? [hotplugout]
> 
> If the above can be coded inside the DPDK app, then we can think of live VM migration with SRIOV -- just hotplugin and plugout the VF's.
> 
> Regards
> -Prashant
> 

The current implementation does look like it supports hotplug.
All devices are discovered during rte_eal_pci_probe.