[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v12 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD

[Tetsuya Mukawa]

On 2016/03/18 21:27, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 05:31:41PM +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>
>> Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>
>> Acked-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane at bigswitch.com>
>> Tested-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane at bigswitch.com>
> Hi Tetsuya,
>
> I hope to get this set merged for RC2 very soon. Can you provide an update for
> the nic overview.rst doc listing out the features of this new PMD. If you want,
> you can provide it as a separate patch, that I will merge into this one for you
> on apply to next-net.
>
> If you do decide to respin this patchset with the extra doc, please take into
> account the following patchwork issues also - otherwise I'll also fix them on
> apply:
>
> WARNING:STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY: static const char * array should probably be static const char * const
> #364: FILE: drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c:56:
> +static const char *valid_arguments[] = {

It seems this is false positive. So I will leave it.

Regards,
Tetsuya