[ovs-dev] [PATCH v5 1/3] netdev-dpdk: add hotplug support

Stephen Finucane stephen at that.guru
Thu Jan 5 15:52:22 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 10:42 +0000, Ciara Loftus wrote:
> From: Mauricio Vásquez <mauricio.vasquezbernal at studenti.polito.it>
> 
> In order to use dpdk ports in ovs they have to be bound to a DPDK
> compatible driver before ovs is started.
> 
> This patch adds the possibility to hotplug (or hot-unplug) a device
> after ovs has been started. The implementation adds two appctl
> commands:
> netdev-dpdk/attach and netdev-dpdk/detach
> 
> After the user attaches a new device, it has to be added to a bridge
> using the add-port command, similarly, before detaching a device,
> it has to be removed using the del-port command.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mauricio Vasquez B <mauricio.vasquezbernal at studenti.po
> lito.it>
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
> Co-authored-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>

The docs aspects of all three patches all look a-OK to me now. Cheers
:)

Acked-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>  # docs only



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