[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/4] eal: allow hotplug to skip an already probed device

Andrew Rybchenko arybchenko at solarflare.com
Fri Oct 12 11:26:17 CEST 2018


On 10/12/18 12:02 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> This is a follow-up of an idea presented at Dublin
> during the "hotplug talk".
>
> The idea is to ease probing of range of ports attached
> to the same rte_device.
> I becomes possible to allow probing again the same device
> but with a bigger range of ports in the devargs.
>
> Instead of adding a parameter to the hotplug functions, as in the RFC,
> the check of an already probed device is moved to the bus and enabled PMDs.
> It gives flexibility to drivers for managing range of ports.

For the series:
Tested-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com>

As I underestand it requires fix for szedata2 and has open
questions for mlx5, bnx2x, cxgbe and testpmd.



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