2015-12-11 11:20, Aaron Conole: > 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.
I think it's better to improve hotplug and allow hot binding. A work is in progress towards this direction. David, can you confirm? Is this patch still valuable in the meantime? > --- 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 Please do not use camel case.
