DPDK ports are only detected during the EAL initialization. After that, any
new DPDK ports which are bound will not be visible to the application.
The dpdk_nic_bind.py can be a bit more helpful to let users know that DPDK
enabled applications will not find rebound ports until after they have been
restarted.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
---
tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py b/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py
index f02454e..ca39389 100755
--- a/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py
+++ b/tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py
@@ -344,8 +344,10 @@ def bind_one(dev_id, driver, force):
dev["Driver_str"] = "" # clear driver string
# if we are binding to one of DPDK drivers, add PCI id's to that driver
+ bDpdkDriver = False
if driver in dpdk_drivers:
filename = "/sys/bus/pci/drivers/%s/new_id" % driver
+ bDpdkDriver = True
try:
f = open(filename, "w")
except:
@@ -371,12 +373,18 @@ def bind_one(dev_id, driver, force):
try:
f.write(dev_id)
f.close()
+ if bDpdkDriver:
+ print "Device rebound to dpdk driver."
+ print "Remember to restart any application that will use this
port."
except:
# for some reason, closing dev_id after adding a new PCI ID to new_id
# results in IOError. however, if the device was successfully bound,
# we don't care for any errors and can safely ignore IOError
tmp = get_pci_device_details(dev_id)
if "Driver_str" in tmp and tmp["Driver_str"] == driver:
+ if bDpdkDriver:
+ print "Device rebound to dpdk driver."
+ print "Remember to restart any application that will use this
port."
return
print "Error: bind failed for %s - Cannot bind to driver %s" %
(dev_id, driver)
if saved_driver is not None: # restore any previous driver
--
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