[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/7] net/virtio_user: add vhost kernel support
Tan, Jianfeng
jianfeng.tan at intel.com
Thu Jan 12 10:40:10 CET 2017
Hi Jason,
> Ok, just want to show its advantages. It can be added on top.
>
> And two more suggestions:
> - better to split tap support out of vhost file
Good suggestion! Will do that in next version.
> - kernel support more than 8 queues on recent kernel, so there's no
> need to limit it to 8. When running on old kernel, TUNSETIFF will fail
> which can give user a hint to reduce #queues.
>
After a try, even we remove such restriction in vhost_kernel backend, we
are still restricted by VIRTIO_MAX_VIRTQUEUES (8) defined in virtio PMD.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Jianfeng
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