Plugging a device usually involves checking for the existence of the
device twice, once before calling plug and once after. It turns out
that these calls are expensive, often taking a half second or more
each. For that reason, it is worth the effort to make sure we check
only once.
The device driver is now responsible for cleanly plugging/unplugging
the device without knowing whether it exists or not. Pushing this
responsibility to the device driver allows implementing it more
efficiently in terms of calls made out to the operating system.
This is targetted at the neutron-tempest-parallel bp because it shaves
time off the time to set up a router, something that hinders parallel
performance.
Change-Id: I391fafe68b76e1c620d2b25e8613ba507fd25dfd
Partial-Bug: #1287824
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