2016-01-26 21:21, David Marchand: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Thomas Monjalon > <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote: > > 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? > > I intend to provide some rfc patches later this week, for next release.
These "auto-hotplug" patches won't be ready for 16.04. But it's possible to use a new bound device with rte_eth_dev_attach(). So this patch is rejected.
