[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 4/8] vhost: rxtx: use queue id instead of constant ring index

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Wed Oct 21 16:59:14 CEST 2015


On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 05:26:18PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 08:48:15PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > > Please note that for virtio devices, guest is supposed to
> > > control the placement of incoming packets in RX queues.
> > 
> > I may not follow you.
> > 
> > Enqueuing packets to a RX queue is done at vhost lib, outside the
> > guest, how could the guest take the control here?
> > 
> > 	--yliu
> 
> vhost should do what guest told it to.
> 
> See virtio spec:
> 	5.1.6.5.5 Automatic receive steering in multiqueue mode


Thanks for the info. I'll have a look tomorrow.

	--yliu


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