[dpdk-dev] dpdk: vhost/virtio staging/testing tree

[Victor Kaplansky <victork@redhat.com>]

Hi!
Since I was maintaining an internal tree with patches related to
vhost/virtio, I decided to make this staging tree public. It is
useful to me and I hope it will be useful to others.

Collecting patches like this allows tracking dependencies between
patches, their improvement etc. I also rebase the tree so
contributors don't have to.

Before publishing, I test the tree so it can serve as a known
good state for people interested in preliminary testing of
patches that aren't yet upstream, improving testing/validation as
multiple people can test the same code.

Others can send patches referring to that tree to avoid conflicts
when several people are working on the same file.

I can also ping them collectively, keeping and rebasing the
patches that have been posted on list already, so it should be
enough to repost a short summary here, rather than flood
everyone's mailboxes by pinging each patch or reposting a full
patch-set.
 
I would like to stress that this is a staging/testing tree and
not fork of any kind: in particular, don't use this in
production, wait for patches to land upstream first!

If virtio maintainers would like to take over maintaining this
tree, please let me know.

The tree is here:
    git://github.com/vkaplans/dpdk.git virtio

(Could be at dpdk.org just as well, but I don't have an account
 there).

Beware: do not publish a tree on top of this one as I might be
re-basing it.

If you want me to add a patch there, just mail it to the list and
(preferably) Cc me. Also, please let me know if there are more
vhost/virtio related patches that I missed worth includng into my
tree.

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Here is the list of patches in my tree: they have been tested by
me and are known to work together:

18e570dc vhost: remove duplicate header include
bc5a6193 vhost: enable log_shmfd protocol feature
905161a5 vhost: handle VHOST_USER_SEND_RARP request
99373fac vhost: claim that we support GUEST_ANNOUNCE feature
7cabbc72 vhost: log vring desc buffer changes
978cf176 vhost: log used vring changes
21d371b3 vhost: introduce vhost_log_write
c71eb45d vhost: handle VHOST_USER_SET_LOG_BASE request

4024209f vhost: Add VHOST PMD
6e2f1457 ethdev: Add a new event type to notify a queue state changed event

Thanks,

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Victor