[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] vhost: handle VHOST_USER_SET_LOG_BASE request

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Mon Dec 7 03:03:24 CET 2015


2015-12-07 10:00, Yuanhan Liu:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 12:07:28AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2015-12-02 15:53, Panu Matilainen:
> > > This (and other changes in patch 2 breaks the librte_vhost ABI again, so 
> > > you'd need to at least add a deprecation note to 2.2 to be able to do it 
> > > in 2.3 at all according to the ABI policy.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps a better option would be adding some padding to the structs now 
> > > for 2.2 since the vhost ABI is broken there anyway. That would at least 
> > > give a chance to keep it compatible from 2.2 to 2.3.
> > 
> > Please could you point where the vhost ABI is broken in 2.2?
> 
> Thomas, here are the changes to rte_virtio_net.h:
> 
> 
> $ git diff 381316f6a225139d22d39b5ab8d50c40607924ca..19d4d7ef2a216b5418d8edb5b004d1a58bba3cc1 \
>       -- lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h >
[...]

The problem is that the changes are not noticed in the release notes
and the LIBABIVER is still 1.


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