From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (mail-wm0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C993E6D for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:10:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id c131so117672050wmh.0 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:10:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=csrOKdQqlL5XE+c/cYvqZeM8V2zJ1+R2M8zzvE4SNo4=; b=r0SI/bk/YfB3e85NRti8SjQpxLscVmZJ5Y8sKXwCR+I3zPiK/ArdPD6ZqAccjd3gVl lseS1mrcvsuy3SWo47JUkg96nOklhyfsZTsiqoou1g3kNCSDdAJXxJRU6PySlb1LjNkz rnT8Ej/OPBJmhKO/TMNT92FzP0LGra1zb13Zk/osxAN5wZi9LTysZJUo0JycALaJHhV0 4cM/Nk4QeEO+Gee+SDNCpneRKu8ZBMiw+bLVs0zayRFviQzRbnxtEnlwVCCcZzYCELRX LO9etdRGP0jwcy9y21YZzG5aCoEunoNDc0Bxggx1BxSNUzRndPxVWgdMPLWH3YIC1tqT oUOA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=csrOKdQqlL5XE+c/cYvqZeM8V2zJ1+R2M8zzvE4SNo4=; b=TslyGlw1QmzbWstcg92wg7u5q5XotJEHSX9x5aSEuG3+nW3yenjkm5Hgn3PThgCnMi 5zOOd4p8r3GmIAIHYLIUMUMyxPp2+zqdlw42+aFXi1tnm4Y3WYZrPEtSSw4cYBB6p9Z8 OLDYnNBK8pFMvqi495x0QE/2qQzyJygAX1r0Zc1oL0iyCtQYd/pX9ysFFYRl2Dkjg4tC nfES7B30OL56q7UyESQeQDwcOLDcQU+QU9zQpILlIYOh2Xn0a5H6g7flRtY5pD0PKslx /b2LXCzmrzg+1wzBsEtVYDGHe/8hp1o4SLBRLUkCDZzUV5UcD75UzOCHhw1RZHATrMmW OpMQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwOLAiBq3p8gDh8fFdLnqUzSCXP4r2R28dikq4u/O5kz318r52ieeaR0249Z4GDa8gs1 X-Received: by 10.194.191.162 with SMTP id gz2mr19693012wjc.182.1473779411391; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:10:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 142sm23408886wmh.12.2016.09.13.08.10.10 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:10:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Ciara Loftus Cc: dev@dpdk.org Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:10:09 +0200 Message-ID: <28342659.xFrdpVFeBf@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1473774463-26966-1-git-send-email-ciara.loftus@intel.com> References: <1473774463-26966-1-git-send-email-ciara.loftus@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/vhost: Add function to retreive the 'vid' for a given port id. X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:10:12 -0000 2016-09-13 14:47, Ciara Loftus: > 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. I think we should not add any API to the PMDs. Maybe you are looking for a generic API in ethdev.