[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: notify guest to fill buffer when there is no buffer

Linhaifeng haifeng.lin at huawei.com
Fri Feb 6 05:02:23 CET 2015



On 2015/2/4 9:38, Xu, Qian Q wrote:
> 4. Launch the VM1 and VM2 with virtio device, note: you need use qemu version>2.1 to enable the vhost-user server's feature. Old qemu such as 1.5,1.6 didn't support it.
> Below is my VM1 startup command, for your reference, similar for VM2. 
> /home/qemu-2.2.0/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -name us-vhost-vm1 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 2048 -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=2048M,mem-path=/mnt/huge,share=on -numa node,memdev=mem -mem-prealloc -smp 2 -drive file=/home/img/dpdk1-vm1.img -chardev socket,id=char0,path=/home/dpdk-vhost/vhost-net -netdev type=vhost-user,id=mynet1,chardev=char0,vhostforce -device virtio-net-pci,mac=00:00:00:00:00:01, -nographic
> 
> 5. Then in the VM, you can have the same operations as before, send packet from virtio1 to virtio2. 
> 
> Pls let me know if any questions, issues. 

Hi xie & xu

When I try to start VM vhost-switch crashed.

VHOST_CONFIG: read message VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE
VHOST_CONFIG: mapped region 0 fd:19 to 0xffffffffffffffff sz:0xa0000 off:0x0
VHOST_CONFIG: mmap qemu guest failed.
VHOST_CONFIG: read message VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_NUM
VHOST_CONFIG: read message VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_BASE
VHOST_CONFIG: read message VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ADDR
run_dpdk_vhost.sh: line 19:  1854 Segmentation fault      ${RTE_SDK}/examples/vhost/build/app/vhost-switch -c 0x300 -n 4 --huge-dir /dev/hugepages -m 2048 -- -p 0x1 --vm2vm 2 --mergeable 0 --zero-copy 0



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Regards,
Haifeng



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