On 10-Apr-18 11:55 AM, Tosatti, Giovanni wrote:
This patch adds a " --restore" option that will unbind all devices currently
bound to DPDK PMDs back to the kernel driver.
Hi Giovanni,
Nitpicking the commit message, but I believe "unbind" here is a bit of a
misnomer - one does not "unbind to kernel driver", it's either "bind to
kernel driver" or "bind to DPDK driver" :)
---
/opt/Perforce/gtosatti_centos/E-XMS/CSA-Mainline/Third-Party/dpdk/dpdk-16.07.orig/tools/dpdk-devbind.py
+++
/opt/Perforce/gtosatti_centos/E-XMS/CSA-Mainline/Third-Party/dpdk/dpdk-16.07/tools/dpdk-devbind.py
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@
-u, --unbind:
Unbind a device (Equivalent to \"-b none\")
+ -r, --restore
+ Restore ALL the DPDK devices to their kernel drivers
Same here - perhaps for clarity this should be "For all devices bound to
DPDK drivers, bind them to their kernel drivers".
+
--force:
By default, devices which are used by Linux - as indicated by having
routes in the routing table - cannot be modified. Using the --force
@@ -448,6 +451,21 @@
if "Driver_str" in devices[d]:
unbind_one(d, force)
+def restore_all_to_kernel():
--
Thanks,
Anatoly
