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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: aconole@redhat.com, sodey@sonusnet.com, jianfeng.tan@intel.com,
	thomas.monjalon@6wind.com, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/9] vhost: Add API to get MTU value
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:42:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170320084203.GL18844@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8067a17-f3df-96d6-d330-d66bf981cb1f@redhat.com>

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:59:12AM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 03/17/2017 06:32 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:37:23PM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>On 03/16/2017 09:00 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> >>>On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 05:34:01PM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> >>>>This patch implements the function for the application to
> >>>>get the MTU value.
> >>>
> >>>I'm thinking the other way. As we are making vhost being generic, it
> >>>doesn't make too much sense now to store a net specific value at vhost
> >>>layer. I'm thinking we may could introduce a vhost-user request handler,
> >>>something like:
> >>>
> >>>	rte_vhost_driver_register_msg_handler(socket, handler);
> >>
> >>That's a good point.
> >>
> >>>All vhost-user message then will goto the driver's sepcific handler.
> >>>if it's handlered, do nothing in vhost lib. Otherwise, we handle it
> >>>in vhost lib.
> >>>
> >>>In this way, you could handle the mtu message inside vhost-pmd; thus,
> >>>there is no need to introduce one more (net specific) API.
> >>>
> >>>Thoughts?
> >>
> >>I need to think more about it, but advantage of having a dedicated API
> >>is that in case the MTU value is not available, you can know from
> >>return code whether it is not yet available (-EAGAIN), or not supported
> >>(-ENOTSUP).
> >>
> >>That could be managed with the callback tough, by calling the callback
> >>with a 0 mtu value if not supported, so that the application can be
> >>sure that if the callback hasn't been called, then it is just that it
> >>is not ready yet.
> >>
> >>What do you think?
> >
> >I don't think the application should even be aware of the callback.
> >Application should get the mtu from the ethdev layer, by the API
> >rte_eth_dev_get_mtu(). And such MTU request should be only handled
> >in vhost-pmd, to serve the rte_eth_dev_get_mtu() API.
> 
> I thought about OVS, which doesn't rely on Vhost PMD (at least didn't
> last time I checked).

Oh, right. Let's keep this API then.

	--yliu

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-20  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-13 14:28 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] virtio/vhost: Add MTU feature support Maxime Coquelin
2017-02-13 14:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] vhost: Enable VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU feature Maxime Coquelin
2017-02-13 14:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/7] vhost: vhost-user: Add MTU protocol feature support Maxime Coquelin
2017-02-13 14:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/7] vhost: Add new ready status flag Maxime Coquelin
2017-02-13 14:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/7] vhost: Add API to get/set MTU value Maxime Coquelin
2017-02-13 14:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/7] net/vhost: Implement mtu_set callback Maxime Coquelin
2017-02-13 14:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/7] net/virtio: Add MTU feature support Maxime Coquelin
2017-02-16 19:31   ` Aaron Conole
2017-02-16 21:17     ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-02-13 14:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/7] app/testpmd: print MTU value in show port info Maxime Coquelin
2017-02-23  7:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/7] virtio/vhost: Add MTU feature support Yuanhan Liu
2017-03-01  7:44   ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-06  8:27 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-06  8:27   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/7] vhost: Enable VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU feature Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-06  8:27   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/7] vhost: vhost-user: Add MTU protocol feature support Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-08  2:31     ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-03-12 10:24       ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-06  8:27   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/7] vhost: Add new ready status flag Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-06  8:27   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/7] vhost: Add API to get MTU value Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-08  2:45     ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-03-12 10:23       ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-06  8:27   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/7] net/vhost: Fill rte_eth_dev's MTU property Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-06  8:27   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/7] net/virtio: Add MTU feature support Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-06  8:27   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/7] app/testpmd: print MTU value in show port info Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-07 21:57   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/7] virtio/vhost: Add MTU feature support Thomas Monjalon
2017-03-12 10:00     ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-12 16:33 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/9] " Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-12 16:33   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/9] vhost: Enable VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU feature Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-12 16:33   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/9] vhost: vhost-user: Add MTU protocol feature support Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-12 16:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 3/9] vhost: Add new ready status flag Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-12 16:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 4/9] vhost: Add API to get MTU value Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-16  8:00     ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-03-16 11:37       ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-17  5:32         ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-03-17  9:59           ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-20  8:42             ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2017-03-12 16:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 5/9] vhost: export " Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-12 16:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/9] net/vhost: Fill rte_eth_dev's MTU property Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-12 16:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 7/9] net/virtio: Add MTU feature support Maxime Coquelin
2017-04-05  4:52     ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-04-05  7:11       ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-04-05  9:42         ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-04-05 13:54           ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-04-05 14:50             ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-04-07 16:40               ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-04-10  6:48                 ` Tan, Jianfeng
2017-03-12 16:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 8/9] doc: announce Virtio and Vhost MTU support Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-12 16:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 9/9] app/testpmd: print MTU value in show port info Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-22  8:58   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/9] virtio/vhost: Add MTU feature support Yuanhan Liu
2017-03-22  9:03     ` Maxime Coquelin
2017-03-28  5:39   ` Yao, Lei A
2017-03-30 11:34     ` Maxime Coquelin

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