From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tan, Jianfeng" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] virtio/vdev: add a new vdev named eth_cvio Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:26:11 +0800 Message-ID: <5719D213.1090608@intel.com> References: <1446748276-132087-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <1461207396-42742-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <1461207396-42742-3-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <2043282.0nxpx5z4RF@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Huawei Xie , rich.lane@bigswitch.com, yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com, mst@redhat.com, nakajima.yoshihiro@lab.ntt.co.jp, p.fedin@samsung.com, michael.qiu@intel.com, ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com, mukawa@igel.co.jp, nhorman@tuxdrver.com To: Thomas Monjalon Return-path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF16D37A0 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 09:26:15 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <2043282.0nxpx5z4RF@xps13> 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" Hi Thomas, On 4/21/2016 6:05 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2016-04-21 02:56, Jianfeng Tan: >> Add a new virtual device named eth_cvio, it can be used just like >> eth_ring, eth_null, etc. > Why this name eth_cvio? > Why the prefix eth_? > The virtio-net driver uses a kernel device. Here it is a userland device. > Why not virtio-user? I was looking for an appropriate name for this device; have tried a lot, but none is good enough. Thank you for your advice virtio-user. The prefix eth_ is to keep the same style with eth_ring, eth_null. So how about eth_virtio_user? > >> .. table:: Features availability in networking drivers >> >> - ==================== = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >> - Feature a b b b c e e e i i i i i i i i i i f f f f m m m n n p r s v v v v x >> - f n n o x 1 n n 4 4 4 4 g g x x x x m m m m l l p f u c i z h i i m e >> - p x x n g 0 a i 0 0 0 0 b b g g g g 1 1 1 1 x x i p l a n e o r r x n >> - a 2 2 d b 0 c e e e e v b b b b 0 0 0 0 4 5 p l p g d s t t n v >> - c x x i e 0 . v v f e e e e k k k k e a t i i e i >> - k v n . f f . v v . v v t o o t r >> - e f g . . . f f . f f a . 3 t >> + ==================== = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = >> + Feature a b b b c e e e i i i i i i i i i i f f f f m m m n n p r s v v v v x c >> + f n n o x 1 n n 4 4 4 4 g g x x x x m m m m l l p f u c i z h i i m e v >> + p x x n g 0 a i 0 0 0 0 b b g g g g 1 1 1 1 x x i p l a n e o r r x n i >> + a 2 2 d b 0 c e e e e v b b b b 0 0 0 0 4 5 p l p g d s t t n v r >> + c x x i e 0 . v v f e e e e k k k k e a t i i e i t >> + k v n . f f . v v . v v t o o t r i >> + e f g . . . f f . f f a . 3 t o >> t v v v v v v 2 v >> e e e e e e e >> c c c c c c c >> - ==================== = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Please keep the alphabetical order. OK, I'll do it in next version. Thanks, Jianfeng