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

Daniele Di Proietto diproiettod at ovn.org
Fri Jan 6 04:12:56 UTC 2017


2017-01-05 7:52 GMT-08:00 Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>:
> 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

Applied to master, thanks


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