Although not very common and perhaps a bit strange, we do have users that want to be able to hot plug/unplug virtio or vmxnet devices from a running system, without shutting down the application nor the VM.
We have been enabling this in production for a year or so, so it's well tested. The only issues found so far are fixed by this series. Luca Boccassi (3): net/virtio: register/unregister intr handler on start/stop net/vmxnet3: fix vmxnet3 dev_uninit() hot-unplug eal/linux: handle uio read failure in interrupt handler drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c | 26 ++++++++------ drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethdev.c | 36 ++++++++++++++------ lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c | 19 ++++++++++- 3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) -- 2.18.0
