All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] doc: update vhost programming guide
Date: Wed,  2 Nov 2016 11:14:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1478056501-9321-2-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1478056501-9321-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>

vhost-cuse has been removed in this release. Update the doc, with the
vhost-cuse part being removed.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst | 62 +++++--------------------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
index 573a318..4f997d4 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
@@ -46,26 +46,8 @@ vhost library should be able to:
 * Know all the necessary information about the vring:
 
   Information such as where the available ring is stored. Vhost defines some
-  messages to tell the backend all the information it needs to know how to
-  manipulate the vring.
-
-Currently, there are two ways to pass these messages and as a result there are
-two Vhost implementations in DPDK: *vhost-cuse* (where the character devices
-are in user space) and *vhost-user*.
-
-Vhost-cuse creates a user space character device and hook to a function ioctl,
-so that all ioctl commands that are sent from the frontend (QEMU) will be
-captured and handled.
-
-Vhost-user creates a Unix domain socket file through which messages are
-passed.
-
-.. Note::
-
-   Since DPDK v2.2, the majority of the development effort has gone into
-   enhancing vhost-user, such as multiple queue, live migration, and
-   reconnect. Thus, it is strongly advised to use vhost-user instead of
-   vhost-cuse.
+  messages (passed through a Unix domain socket file) to tell the backend all
+  the information it needs to know how to manipulate the vring.
 
 
 Vhost API Overview
@@ -75,11 +57,10 @@ The following is an overview of the Vhost API functions:
 
 * ``rte_vhost_driver_register(path, flags)``
 
-  This function registers a vhost driver into the system. For vhost-cuse, a
-  ``/dev/path`` character device file will be created. For vhost-user server
-  mode, a Unix domain socket file ``path`` will be created.
+  This function registers a vhost driver into the system. ``path`` specifies
+  the Unix domain socket file path.
 
-  Currently supported flags are (these are valid for vhost-user only):
+  Currently supported flags are:
 
   - ``RTE_VHOST_USER_CLIENT``
 
@@ -171,35 +152,8 @@ The following is an overview of the Vhost API functions:
   default.
 
 
-Vhost Implementations
----------------------
-
-Vhost-cuse implementation
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-When vSwitch registers the vhost driver, it will register a cuse device driver
-into the system and creates a character device file. This cuse driver will
-receive vhost open/release/IOCTL messages from the QEMU simulator.
-
-When the open call is received, the vhost driver will create a vhost device
-for the virtio device in the guest.
-
-When the ``VHOST_SET_MEM_TABLE`` ioctl is received, vhost searches the memory
-region to find the starting user space virtual address that maps the memory of
-the guest virtual machine. Through this virtual address and the QEMU pid,
-vhost can find the file QEMU uses to map the guest memory. Vhost maps this
-file into its address space, in this way vhost can fully access the guest
-physical memory, which means vhost could access the shared virtio ring and the
-guest physical address specified in the entry of the ring.
-
-The guest virtual machine tells the vhost whether the virtio device is ready
-for processing or is de-activated through the ``VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND``
-message. The registered callback from vSwitch will be called.
-
-When the release call is made, vhost will destroy the device.
-
-Vhost-user implementation
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Vhost-user Implementations
+--------------------------
 
 Vhost-user uses Unix domain sockets for passing messages. This means the DPDK
 vhost-user implementation has two options:
@@ -246,8 +200,6 @@ For ``VHOST_SET_MEM_TABLE`` message, QEMU will send information for each
 memory region and its file descriptor in the ancillary data of the message.
 The file descriptor is used to map that region.
 
-There is no ``VHOST_NET_SET_BACKEND`` message as in vhost-cuse to signal
-whether the virtio device is ready or stopped. Instead,
 ``VHOST_SET_VRING_KICK`` is used as the signal to put the vhost device into
 the data plane, and ``VHOST_GET_VRING_BASE`` is used as the signal to remove
 the vhost device from the data plane.
-- 
1.9.0

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-02  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-02  3:14 [PATCH 0/3] vhost: comments and doc update due to vhost-cuse removal Yuanhan Liu
2016-11-02  3:14 ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2016-11-04 13:22   ` [PATCH 1/3] doc: update vhost programming guide Mcnamara, John
2016-11-02  3:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] doc: update the vhost sample guide Yuanhan Liu
2016-11-04 13:38   ` Mcnamara, John
2016-11-02  3:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] vhost: update comments Yuanhan Liu
2016-11-04 13:28   ` Mcnamara, John
2016-11-04 14:15     ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-11-07 15:00 ` [PATCH 0/3] vhost: comments and doc update due to vhost-cuse removal Thomas Monjalon

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1478056501-9321-2-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com \
    --to=yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=dev@dpdk.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.