From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Mcnamara, John" <john.mcnamara@intel.com>,
"Loftus, Ciara" <ciara.loftus@intel.com>,
"Liu, Yuanhan" <yuanhan.liu@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/vhost: Add function to retreive the 'vid' for a given port id.
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:30:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2712023.9XEuyBWnhG@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B27915DBBA3421428155699D51E4CFE20262576B@IRSMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com>
2016-09-29 09:21, Mcnamara, John:
> > In some cases when using the vHost PMD, certain vHost library functions
> > may still need to be accessed. One such example is the
> > rte_vhost_get_queue_num function which returns the number of virtqueues
> > reported by the guest - information which is not exposed by the PMD.
> >
> > This commit introduces a new rte_eth_vhost function that returns the 'vid'
> > associated with a given port id. This allows the PMD user to call vHost
> > library functions which require the 'vid' value.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
>
> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
A conclusion to this long thread:
This patch can be helpful in many situations where we need vhost lib when
using vhost PMD. And driver-specific API is acceptable. And this specific
function is not a candidate to be promoted in ethdev.
So it should go in release 16.11.
When overlooking the OVS issue related, this solution seems to be a
workaround. For next release, would it be possible to find a real fix
for vhost PMD and/or ethdev API instead of relying on vhost lib?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-29 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-13 13:47 Ciara Loftus
2016-09-13 15:10 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-14 4:43 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-14 7:10 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-14 7:21 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-14 8:35 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-18 8:27 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-21 13:07 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-22 2:36 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-22 16:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-23 4:26 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-23 8:43 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-23 9:16 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-23 9:26 ` Loftus, Ciara
2016-09-23 21:23 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-09-26 3:19 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-09-26 13:12 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-26 13:18 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-09-26 14:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-26 14:34 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-09-26 16:24 ` Iremonger, Bernard
2016-09-26 16:55 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-09-26 17:05 ` Wiles, Keith
2016-09-28 16:59 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-09-29 9:21 ` Mcnamara, John
2016-09-29 9:30 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-09-29 12:08 ` Yuanhan Liu
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