[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: fix MQ fails to startup

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 04/27/2017 09:56 AM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> Hi Zhiyong,
> 
> +Marc-André
> 
> On 04/27/2017 08:34 AM, Zhiyong Yang wrote:
>> vhost since dpdk17.02 + qemu2.7 and above will cause failures of
>> new connection when negotiating to set MQ. (one queue pair works
>> well).Because there exist some bugs in qemu code when introducing
>> VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_REPLY_ACK to qemu. when dealing with the vhost
>> message VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE for the second time, qemu indeed
>> doesn't send the messge (The message needs to be sent only once)but
>> still will be waiting for dpdk's reply ack, then, qemu is always
>> freezing. DPDK code works in the right way.
> 
> I'm looking at Qemu's vhost_user_set_mem_table() function, but fail to
> see how it could wait for the reply-ack if it didn't send the
> VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE request before.

Oh, sorry, I get it now.
Are you working for a fix in Qemu, or have you already reported the
problem?

Thanks,
Maxime