From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa@igel.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] vhost: add support for dynamic vhost PMD creation
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 09:59:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160520015926.GG5641@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1891939.OmQDtN0y3O@xps13>
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 06:44:44PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-05-19 17:28, Ferruh Yigit:
> > On 5/19/2016 9:33 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 2016-05-18 18:10, Ferruh Yigit:
> > >> Add rte_eth_from_vhost() API to create vhost PMD dynamically from
> > >> applications.
> > >
> > > How is it different from rte_eth_dev_attach() calling rte_eal_vdev_init()?
> > >
> >
> > When used rte_eth_dev_attach(), application also needs to do:
Sigh.. I was not awared that there is such interface.
> > rte_eth_dev_configure()
> > rte_eth_rx_queue_setup()
> > rte_eth_tx_queue_setup()
> > rte_eth_dev_start()
> >
> > rte_eth_from_vhost() does these internally, easier to use for applications.
>
> This argument is not sufficient.
> We are not going to add new APIs just for wrapping others.
+1.
--yliu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-20 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-05 18:11 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Ferruh Yigit
2016-05-09 21:31 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-05-10 17:11 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-05-18 17:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ferruh Yigit
2016-05-19 8:33 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-19 16:28 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-05-19 16:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-20 1:59 ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2016-05-20 10:37 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-05-20 12:03 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-23 13:24 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-05-23 17:06 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-05-24 5:11 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-05-24 9:42 ` Bruce Richardson
2016-05-25 4:41 ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-05-25 11:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-05-26 7:58 ` Yuanhan Liu
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