From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: ciara.loftus@intel.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Anthony Fee <anthonyx.fee@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] vhost: add interface name to virtio-net struct
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:02:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1522038.HipDzNB9IE@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1418926027-19794-1-git-send-email-ciara.loftus@intel.com>
2014-12-18 18:07, ciara.loftus@intel.com:
> This patch fixes the issue whereby when using userspace vhost ports
> in the context of vSwitching, the name provided to the hypervisor/QEMU
> of the vhost tap device needs to be exposed in the library, in order
> for the vSwitch to be able to direct packets to the correct device.
> This patch introduces an 'ifname' member to the virtio-net structure
> which is populated with the tap device name when QEMU is brought up
> with a vhost device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Fee <anthonyx.fee@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>
Seems important to make this new library working in a common scenario.
Applied
Thanks
--
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-18 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-18 18:07 ciara.loftus
2014-12-18 22:02 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-12-19 15:39 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-12-19 16:02 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-01-25 4:41 ` Linhaifeng
2015-01-25 8:34 ` Xie, Huawei
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