[dpdk-dev] kernel binding of devices + hotplug

[Matan Azrad]

Hi Stephen

From: Stephen Hemminger, Monday, April 16, 2018 7:57 PM
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:11:12 +0000
> Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com> wrote:
> 
> > > If the device management is only managed in one place, i.e. not in
> > > DPDK, then there is no conflict to manage.
> >
> > I can't agree with this statement,
> > The essence of DPDK is to give a good alternative to managing network
> > devices, DPDK actually takes a lot of management area to manage by
> > itself to do the user life better :)
> 
> More is not better! DPDK is poorly integrated into Linux overall system. Doing
> more in DPDK makes this worse not better.

In this case I think that yes, more is better.
Please explain why do you think that in this case it is worse.
 
> Buried under this discussion is the fact that the Mellanox bifurcated driver
> behaves completely differently from every other driver. This makes coming
> to a common solution much harder. The bifurcated model has advantages
> and disadvantages, in this case it is a disadvantage since it is not easy to
> manage usage when it is a shared resource.

Sorry, what is your point?