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From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: announce API/ABI changes for vhost
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:51:05 +0530
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 07:02:56PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2017-01-23 21:04, Yuanhan Liu:
> > I made a vhost ABI/API refactoring at v16.04, meant to avoid such issue
> > forever. Well, apparently, I lied.
> > 
> > People are looking for more vhost-user options now days, other than
> > vhost-user net only. For example, SPDK (Storage Performance Development
> > Kit) are looking for chance of vhost-user SCSI and vhost-user block.
> > 
> > Apparently, they also need a vhost-user backend, while DPDK already
> > has a (mature enough) backend, they don't want to implement it again
> > from scratch. They want to leverage the one DPDK provides.
> > 
> > However, the last refactoring hasn't done that right, at least it's
> > not friendly for extending vhost-user to add more devices support.
> > For example, different virtio devices has its own feature set, while
> > APIs like rte_vhost_feature_disable(feature_mask) have no option to
> > tell the device type. Thus, a more proper API should look like:
> > 
> >     rte_vhost_feature_disable(device_type, feature_mask);
> > 
> > Besides that, few public files and structures should be renamed, to
> > not let it bind to virtio-net. Specifically, they are:
> > 
> > - virtio_net_device_ops --> vhost_device_ops
> > - rte_virtio_net.h      --> rte_vhost.h
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>