From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <jianfeng.tan@intel.com> Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF16D37A0 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:26:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 22 Apr 2016 00:26:14 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.24,516,1455004800"; d="scan'208";a="690351488" Received: from shwdeisgchi083.ccr.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.239.67.193]) ([10.239.67.193]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 22 Apr 2016 00:26:11 -0700 To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> References: <1446748276-132087-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <1461207396-42742-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <1461207396-42742-3-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <2043282.0nxpx5z4RF@xps13> Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>, rich.lane@bigswitch.com, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com, mst@redhat.com, nakajima.yoshihiro@lab.ntt.co.jp, p.fedin@samsung.com, michael.qiu@intel.com, ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com, mukawa@igel.co.jp, nhorman@tuxdrver.com From: "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com> Message-ID: <5719D213.1090608@intel.com> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:26:11 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2043282.0nxpx5z4RF@xps13> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] virtio/vdev: add a new vdev named eth_cvio X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 07:26:16 -0000 Hi Thomas, On 4/21/2016 6:05 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2016-04-21 02:56, Jianfeng Tan: >> Add a new virtual device named eth_cvio, it can be used just like >> eth_ring, eth_null, etc. > Why this name eth_cvio? > Why the prefix eth_? > The virtio-net driver uses a kernel device. Here it is a userland device. > Why not virtio-user? I was looking for an appropriate name for this device; have tried a lot, but none is good enough. Thank you for your advice virtio-user. The prefix eth_ is to keep the same style with eth_ring, eth_null. So how about eth_virtio_user? > >> .. table:: Features availability in networking drivers >> >> - ==================== = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >> - Feature a b b b c e e e i i i i i i i i i i f f f f m m m n n p r s v v v v x >> - f n n o x 1 n n 4 4 4 4 g g x x x x m m m m l l p f u c i z h i i m e >> - p x x n g 0 a i 0 0 0 0 b b g g g g 1 1 1 1 x x i p l a n e o r r x n >> - a 2 2 d b 0 c e e e e v b b b b 0 0 0 0 4 5 p l p g d s t t n v >> - c x x i e 0 . v v f e e e e k k k k e a t i i e i >> - k v n . f f . v v . v v t o o t r >> - e f g . . . f f . f f a . 3 t >> + ==================== = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >> + Feature a b b b c e e e i i i i i i i i i i f f f f m m m n n p r s v v v v x c >> + f n n o x 1 n n 4 4 4 4 g g x x x x m m m m l l p f u c i z h i i m e v >> + p x x n g 0 a i 0 0 0 0 b b g g g g 1 1 1 1 x x i p l a n e o r r x n i >> + a 2 2 d b 0 c e e e e v b b b b 0 0 0 0 4 5 p l p g d s t t n v r >> + c x x i e 0 . v v f e e e e k k k k e a t i i e i t >> + k v n . f f . v v . v v t o o t r i >> + e f g . . . f f . f f a . 3 t o >> t v v v v v v 2 v >> e e e e e e e >> c c c c c c c >> - ==================== = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Please keep the alphabetical order. OK, I'll do it in next version. Thanks, Jianfeng