From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: Introduce vhost-user's REPLY_ACK feature
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 11:14:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68cbccdb-40ca-7cc7-1f78-6823aa4c960c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161213100306.GD18991@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com>
On 12/13/2016 11:03 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:57:10AM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 12/13/2016 10:56 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 06:54:00PM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>>>> REPLY_ACK features provide a generic way for QEMU to ensure both
>>>> completion and success of a request.
>>>>
>>>> As described in vhost-user spec in QEMU repository, QEMU sets
>>>> VHOST_USER_NEED_REPLY flag (bit 3) when expecting a reply_ack from
>>>> the backend. Backend must reply with 0 for success or non-zero
>>>> otherwise when flag is set.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, only VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE request implements reply_ack,
>>>> in order to synchronize mapping updates.
>>>>
>>>> This patch enables REPLY_ACK feature generally, but only checks error
>>>> code for VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the patch: it looks good and straightforward to me.
>> Good!
>>
>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The intend of this patch is not to fix a known issue, but it is
>>>> nice to have this feature, and it will be used by upcoming MTU
>>>> feature if it remains in its current form.
>>>
>>> Just asking, when do you plan to send out the patches?
>> As soon as QEMU part is accepted, because changes in QEMU series
>> may impact DPDK's one.
>
> But maybe you could send them out earlier, so that we could have
> understand it better?
Sure, makes sense.
I'll try to send a RFC next week, that we could merge only once QEMU
part accepted.
Thanks,
Maxime
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-13 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-12 17:54 Maxime Coquelin
2016-12-13 9:56 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-12-13 9:57 ` Maxime Coquelin
2016-12-13 10:03 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-12-13 10:14 ` Maxime Coquelin [this message]
2017-01-12 4:03 ` Yuanhan Liu
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