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31 Port Hotplug Framework
32 ======================
34 The Port Hotplug Framework provides DPDK applications with the ability to
35 attach and detach ports at runtime. Because the framework depends on PMD
36 implementation, the ports that PMDs cannot handle are out of scope of this
37 framework. Furthermore, after detaching a port from a DPDK application, the
38 framework doesn't provide a way for removing the devices from the system.
39 For the ports backed by a physical NIC, the kernel will need to support PCI
45 The basic requirements of the Port Hotplug Framework are:
47 * DPDK applications that use the Port Hotplug Framework must manage their
50 The Port Hotplug Framework is implemented to allow DPDK applications to
51 manage ports. For example, when DPDK applications call the port attach
52 function, the attached port number is returned. DPDK applications can
53 also detach the port by port number.
55 * Kernel support is needed for attaching or detaching physical device
58 To attach new physical device ports, the device will be recognized by
59 userspace driver I/O framework in kernel at first. Then DPDK
60 applications can call the Port Hotplug functions to attach the ports.
61 For detaching, steps are vice versa.
63 * Before detaching, they must be stopped and closed.
65 DPDK applications must call "rte_eth_dev_stop()" and
66 "rte_eth_dev_close()" APIs before detaching ports. These functions will
67 start finalization sequence of the PMDs.
69 * The framework doesn't affect legacy DPDK applications behavior.
71 If the Port Hotplug functions aren't called, all legacy DPDK apps can
72 still work without modifications.
74 Port Hotplug API overview
75 -------------------------
79 "rte_eth_dev_attach()" API attaches a port to DPDK application, and
80 returns the attached port number. Before calling the API, the device
81 should be recognized by an userspace driver I/O framework. The API
82 receives a pci address like "0000:01:00.0" or a virtual device name
83 like "net_pcap0,iface=eth0". In the case of virtual device name, the
84 format is the same as the general "--vdev" option of DPDK.
88 "rte_eth_dev_detach()" API detaches a port from DPDK application, and
89 returns a pci address of the detached device or a virtual device name
95 "testpmd" supports the Port Hotplug Framework.
100 * The Port Hotplug APIs are not thread safe.
102 * The framework can only be enabled with Linux. BSD is not supported.
104 * Not all PMDs support detaching feature.
105 The underlying bus must support hot-unplug. If not supported,
106 the function ``rte_eth_dev_detach()`` will return negative ENOTSUP.