[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD

[Tetsuya Mukawa]

On 2016/03/04 17:39, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 01:17:42PM +0900, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
>> The patch introduces a new PMD. This PMD is implemented as thin wrapper
>> of librte_vhost. It means librte_vhost is also needed to compile the PMD.
>> The vhost messages will be handled only when a port is started. So start
>> a port first, then invoke QEMU.
>>
>> The PMD has 2 parameters.
>>  - iface:  The parameter is used to specify a path to connect to a
>>            virtio-net device.
>>  - queues: The parameter is used to specify the number of the queues
>>            virtio-net device has.
>>            (Default: 1)
>>
>> Here is an example.
>> $ ./testpmd -c f -n 4 --vdev 'eth_vhost0,iface=/tmp/sock0,queues=1' -- -i
>>
>> To connect above testpmd, here is qemu command example.
>>
>> $ qemu-system-x86_64 \
>>         <snip>
>>         -chardev socket,id=chr0,path=/tmp/sock0 \
>>         -netdev vhost-user,id=net0,chardev=chr0,vhostforce,queues=1 \
>>         -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mq=on
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa at igel.co.jp>
>> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> You should carry my Acked-by that I gave few versions before, as well
> as the Reviewed-by and Tested-by from Rich, if my memory serves me
> right. It's also a way to show respects to the reivew/test efforts
> from them.

Sure, I will submit one more patch, and will add them.

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> Mind to add me to the MAINTAINER list as well if you send another
> version? :) If so, don't put my email address wrongly, which you
> have done many times ;-)

Thank you so much for it. And sorry I get wrong your email address.
I will add you in MAINTAINERS in next patch.

Thanks,
Tetsuya

> 	--yliu