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From: "Wang, Zhihong" <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
	"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>,
	"Bie, Tiwei" <tiwei.bie@intel.com>,
	"yliu@fridaylinux.org" <yliu@fridaylinux.org>,
	"Liang, Cunming" <cunming.liang@intel.com>,
	"Wang, Xiao W" <xiao.w.wang@intel.com>,
	"Daly, Dan" <dan.daly@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC 1/2] vhost: make capabilities configurable
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 05:37:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8F6C2BD409508844A0EFC19955BE0941513BE32A@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <67d70715-2e0a-6623-df06-b65f800ebb42@redhat.com>

Hi Maxime,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maxime Coquelin [mailto:maxime.coquelin@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:00 PM
> To: Wang, Zhihong <zhihong.wang@intel.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Tan, Jianfeng <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>; Bie, Tiwei
> <tiwei.bie@intel.com>; yliu@fridaylinux.org; Liang, Cunming
> <cunming.liang@intel.com>; Wang, Xiao W <xiao.w.wang@intel.com>; Daly,
> Dan <dan.daly@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] vhost: make capabilities configurable
> 
> Hi Zhihong
> 
> On 12/23/2017 04:36 AM, Zhihong Wang wrote:
> > This patch makes vhost device capabilities configurable to adopt various
> > engines. Such capabilities include supported features, protocol features,
> > queue number. APIs are introduced to let app configure these capabilities.
> 
> Why does the vDPA driver need to mask protocol features?

Different vhost devices may support different combinations of protocol
features, e.g. One may not support MQ, or RARP. So it should be reported
by the device.

Thanks
-Zhihong

> 
> Maxime

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-31  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-23  3:36 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC 0/2] vhost: support selective datapath Zhihong Wang
2017-12-23  3:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC 1/2] vhost: make capabilities configurable Zhihong Wang
2018-01-30 14:59   ` Maxime Coquelin
2018-01-31  5:37     ` Wang, Zhihong [this message]
2017-12-23  3:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH RFC 2/2] vhost: support selective datapath Zhihong Wang

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