[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 6/6] Link Bonding Library doxygen additions

Doherty, Declan declan.doherty at intel.com
Wed Jun 25 16:19:31 CEST 2014


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 2:44 PM
> To: Doherty, Declan
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 6/6] Link Bonding Library doxygen additions
> 
> Hi Declan,
> 
> Since bonding library is a PMD, there should have no need of integrate it
> in the API documentation.
> I hadn't time to review it yet, so I would miss something.
> Do you mean it can be used directly by the application with a specific API?
> In this case, you could explain it in the commit log.
> 

Hi Thomas, the bonding library has a  API which supports creation and 
management of bonded devices directly from within applications, but more 
importantly provides the APIs required to dynamically add and remove slaves 
from a bonded device, this functionality will be required to support live 
migration of VMs using bonded ports in a future releases.


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