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From: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa@igel.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:35:51 +0900
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On 2016/03/14 21:02, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 11:07:14AM +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>
>> Acked-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane@bigswitch.com>
>> Tested-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane@bigswitch.com>
>> ---
>>  MAINTAINERS                                 |   5 +
>>  config/common_base                          |   6 +
>>  config/common_linuxapp                      |   1 +
>>  doc/guides/nics/index.rst                   |   1 +
> This adds a new entry for vhost PMD into the index, but there is no vhost.rst
> file present in this patchset. Did you forget to add it?

Yes, it seems so. The file is only on my environment.
I will add it.

Thanks,
Tetsuya

>
>>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst      |   4 +
>>  drivers/net/Makefile                        |   4 +
>>  drivers/net/vhost/Makefile                  |  62 ++
>>  drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c           | 916 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.h           | 109 ++++
>>  drivers/net/vhost/rte_pmd_vhost_version.map |  10 +
>>  mk/rte.app.mk                               |   6 +
>>  11 files changed, 1124 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/Makefile
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.h
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/rte_pmd_vhost_version.map
> <snip>
>
> /Bruce
>