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From: "Xia, Chenbo" <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
To: "Lipiec, Herakliusz" <herakliusz.lipiec@intel.com>,
	"maxime.coquelin@redhat.com" <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, "stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] doc/prog_guide: fix readability in lib vhost prog guide
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 07:51:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SN6PR11MB35049F7C9F684E45C1C0F83F9CB49@SN6PR11MB3504.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220623135721.1779466-1-herakliusz.lipiec@intel.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lipiec, Herakliusz <herakliusz.lipiec@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2022 9:57 PM
> To: maxime.coquelin@redhat.com; Xia, Chenbo <chenbo.xia@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Lipiec, Herakliusz <herakliusz.lipiec@intel.com>;
> stable@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH v2] doc/prog_guide: fix readability in lib vhost prog
> guide
> 
> fix grammar issues and readbility in vhost library programmer guide
> 
> Fixes: 768274ebbd5e ("vhost: avoid populate guest memory")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herakliusz Lipiec <herakliusz.lipiec@intel.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst | 18 +++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
> b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
> index 606edee940..4675347ee5 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
> @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ vhost-user implementation has two options:
> 
>       * The vhost supported features must be exactly the same before and
>         after the restart. For example, if TSO is disabled and then
> enabled,
> -       nothing will work and issues undefined might happen.
> +       nothing will work and undefined issues might happen.
> 
>  No matter which mode is used, once a connection is established, DPDK
>  vhost-user will start receiving and processing vhost messages from QEMU.
> @@ -382,12 +382,12 @@ Guest memory requirement
> 
>  * Memory pre-allocation
> 
> -  For non-async data path, guest memory pre-allocation is not a
> -  must. This can help save of memory. If users really want the guest
> memory
> -  to be pre-allocated (e.g., for performance reason), we can add option
> -  ``-mem-prealloc`` when starting QEMU. Or, we can lock all memory at
> vhost
> -  side which will force memory to be allocated when mmap at vhost side;
> -  option --mlockall in ovs-dpdk is an example in hand.
> +  For non-async data path guest memory pre-allocation is not a
> +  must but can help save memory. To do this we can add option
> +  ``-mem-prealloc`` when starting QEMU, or we can lock all memory at
> vhost
> +  side which will force memory to be allocated when it calls mmap
> +  (option --mlockall in ovs-dpdk is an example in hand).
> +
> 
>    For async data path, we force the VM memory to be pre-allocated at
> vhost
>    lib when mapping the guest memory; and also we need to lock the memory
> to
> @@ -395,8 +395,8 @@ Guest memory requirement
> 
>  * Memory sharing
> 
> -  Make sure ``share=on`` QEMU option is given. vhost-user will not work
> with
> -  a QEMU version without shared memory mapping.
> +  Make sure ``share=on`` QEMU option is given. The vhost-user will not
> work with
> +  a QEMU instance without shared memory mapping.
> 
>  Vhost supported vSwitch reference
>  ---------------------------------
> --
> 2.36.1

Reviewed-by: Chenbo Xia <chenbo.xia@intel.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-24  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-27 17:31 [PATCH] doc: " Herakliusz Lipiec
2022-06-15  1:56 ` Xia, Chenbo
2022-06-23 13:57 ` [PATCH v2] doc/prog_guide: " Herakliusz Lipiec
2022-06-24  7:51   ` Xia, Chenbo [this message]
2022-07-01 13:52   ` Maxime Coquelin

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