[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/9] usertools: add DPDK config lib python library

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 16-Nov-18 2:13 PM, Richardson, Bruce wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wiles, Keith
>> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2018 2:10 PM
>> To: Burakov, Anatoly <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
>> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>; dev <dev at dpdk.org>;
>> Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; Richardson, Bruce
>> <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
>> <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>; Hunt, David <david.hunt at intel.com>;
>> Awal, Mohammad Abdul <mohammad.abdul.awal at intel.com>; thomas at monjalon.net;
>> Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 1/9] usertools: add DPDK config lib python
>> library
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>>> On Nov 16, 2018, at 5:49 AM, Burakov, Anatoly
>> <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 16-Nov-18 12:45 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:47:13 +0000
>>>> Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote:
>>>>> This is a placeholder for Python library abstracting away many of
>>>>> mundane details DPDK configuration scripts have to deal with. We
>>>>> need __init__.py file to make the subdirectory a package so that
>>>>> Python scripts in usertools/ can find their dependencies.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   usertools/DPDKConfigLib/__init__.py | 0
>>>>>   1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)  create mode 100644
>>>>> usertools/DPDKConfigLib/__init__.py
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/usertools/DPDKConfigLib/__init__.py
>>>>> b/usertools/DPDKConfigLib/__init__.py
>>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>>> index 000000000..e69de29bb
>>>> Doing this a better than current code, but can we go farther?
>>>> I would like DPDK to get out of doing binds directly and switch to
>>>> using driverctl which also handles persistent rebind on reboot.
>>>
>>> Wasn't the objection that it's not available everywhere? (for the
>>> record, i have no horse in the race - i don't much care exactly how
>>> it's done)
>>
>> If it works on FreeBSD and Linux then I am all for it. On windows does it
>> support this method too?
>>>
> 
> Binding and unbinding is completely different on each OS. FreeBSD has no overlap
> of scripts with Linux, so replacing some of our tools with driverctl won't affect
> that OS.
> 
> /Bruce
> 

...however, we could abstract that away in our tools, and use 
OS-appropriate tools independently of what we're running on. There could 
still be value in fixing devbind everyone knows and love to work on all 
OS's without too much hassle :)

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly