From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yuanhan Liu Subject: Re: vhost [query] : support for multiple ports and non VMDQ devices in vhost switch Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:27:03 +0800 Message-ID: <20160818082703.GV30752@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> References: <20160816025614.GM30752@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> <279ceed3-4645-b8ae-9809-dd10b9fd66b4@nxp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: dev@dpdk.org, hemant.agrawal@nxp.com, shreyansh.jain@nxp.com, "Tan, Jianfeng" , "Wang, Zhihong" To: Pankaj Chauhan Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F6D05901 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 10:18:13 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <279ceed3-4645-b8ae-9809-dd10b9fd66b4@nxp.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:54:21PM +0530, Pankaj Chauhan wrote: > My use case is that my machine/board which is not sitting as end node of > network but somewhere in between like an router. So the traffic looks > something like this: > > Physical port 1 -> Enter VM(s) through virtio -> exit from physical port 2 I'm not quite sure testpmd has this kind of support or not, routing the data from a specific port to another specific port. Zhihong might have the answer. --yliu > For above use case i need a vhost-back-end which supports multiple physical > ports. > > Thanks for the suggestion of vhost-pmd ( i was not aware of that), i'll > explore possibility of using it for my use case of multiple physical ports.