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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD
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On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 08:28:13PM +0900, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
> The patch introduces a new PMD. This PMD is implemented as thin wrapper
> of librte_vhost. It means librte_vhost is also needed to compile the PMD.
> The vhost messages will be handled only when a port is started. So start
> a port first, then invoke QEMU.
> 
> The PMD has 2 parameters.
>  - iface:  The parameter is used to specify a path to connect to a
>            virtio-net device.
>  - queues: The parameter is used to specify the number of the queues
>            virtio-net device has.
>            (Default: 1)
> 
> Here is an example.
> $ ./testpmd -c f -n 4 --vdev 'eth_vhost0,iface=/tmp/sock0,queues=1' -- -i
> 
> To connect above testpmd, here is qemu command example.
> 
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 \
>         <snip>
>         -chardev socket,id=chr0,path=/tmp/sock0 \
>         -netdev vhost-user,id=net0,chardev=chr0,vhostforce,queues=1 \
>         -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mq=on
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa@igel.co.jp>
> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>

Thanks.

	--yliu