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Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost: add interface name to virtio-net
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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:20:26 -0800
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:55:23 +0000
ciara.loftus-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:

> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h b/lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h
> index 00b1328..aebb4b5 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h
> @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ struct virtio_net {
>  	uint64_t		features;	/**< Negotiated feature set. */
>  	uint64_t		device_fh;	/**< device identifier. */
>  	uint32_t		flags;		/**< Device flags. Only used to check if device is running on data core. */
> +	char			ifname[32];	/** Name of the tap device **/

Linux and BSD the maximum network device name size is 16