[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] bus/vdev: bus scan by multi-process channel

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 04-Mar-18 3:30 PM, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> To scan the vdevs in primary, we send request to primary process
> to obtain the names for vdevs.
> 
> Only the name is shared from the primary. In probe(), the device
> driver is supposed to locate (or request more) the detail
> information from the primary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
> ---

Is there much point in having private vdevs? Granted, i'm not exactly a 
heavy user of vdev's, but to me this would seem like a way to introduce 
more confusion. How do i tell which devices are shared between 
processes, and which are private to one process? Can i control which one 
do i get? To me it would seem like it would be better to just switch all 
vdevs to being shared.

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Thanks,
Anatoly