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From: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] examples/vhost: introduce a new
 vhost-user-scsi sample application
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 03:48:52 +0800
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 05:16:29PM +0800, Changpeng Liu wrote:
> vhost-user protocol is common to many virtio devices, such as
> virtio_net/virtio_scsi/virtio_blk. Since DPDK vhost library
> removed the NET specific data structures, the vhost library
> is common to other virtio devices, such as virtio-scsi.
> 
> Here we introduce a simple memory based block device that
> can be presented to Guest VM through vhost-user-scsi-pci
> controller. Similar with vhost-net, the sample application
> will process the I/Os sent via virt rings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changpeng Liu <changpeng.liu@intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-virtio.

	--yliu