[dpdk-dev] [RFC 19/24] net/vhost: add virtio-vhost-user support

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha at redhat.com
Fri Jan 19 14:44:39 CET 2018


The new virtio-transport=0|1 argument enables virtio-vhost-user support:

  testpmd ... --pci-whitelist 0000:00:04.0 \
              --vdev vhost,iface=0000:00:04.0,virtio-transport=1

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
index 2536ee4a2..a136ce89f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ enum {VIRTIO_RXQ, VIRTIO_TXQ, VIRTIO_QNUM};
 #define ETH_VHOST_CLIENT_ARG		"client"
 #define ETH_VHOST_DEQUEUE_ZERO_COPY	"dequeue-zero-copy"
 #define ETH_VHOST_IOMMU_SUPPORT		"iommu-support"
+#define ETH_VHOST_VIRTIO_TRANSPORT	"virtio-transport"
 #define VHOST_MAX_PKT_BURST 32
 
 static const char *valid_arguments[] = {
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ static const char *valid_arguments[] = {
 	ETH_VHOST_CLIENT_ARG,
 	ETH_VHOST_DEQUEUE_ZERO_COPY,
 	ETH_VHOST_IOMMU_SUPPORT,
+	ETH_VHOST_VIRTIO_TRANSPORT,
 	NULL
 };
 
@@ -1167,6 +1169,7 @@ rte_pmd_vhost_probe(struct rte_vdev_device *dev)
 	int client_mode = 0;
 	int dequeue_zero_copy = 0;
 	int iommu_support = 0;
+	uint16_t virtio_transport = 0;
 
 	RTE_LOG(INFO, PMD, "Initializing pmd_vhost for %s\n",
 		rte_vdev_device_name(dev));
@@ -1224,6 +1227,16 @@ rte_pmd_vhost_probe(struct rte_vdev_device *dev)
 			flags |= RTE_VHOST_USER_IOMMU_SUPPORT;
 	}
 
+	if (rte_kvargs_count(kvlist, ETH_VHOST_VIRTIO_TRANSPORT) == 1) {
+		ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, ETH_VHOST_VIRTIO_TRANSPORT,
+					 &open_int, &virtio_transport);
+		if (ret < 0)
+			goto out_free;
+
+		if (virtio_transport)
+			flags |= RTE_VHOST_USER_VIRTIO_TRANSPORT;
+	}
+
 	if (dev->device.numa_node == SOCKET_ID_ANY)
 		dev->device.numa_node = rte_socket_id();
 
-- 
2.14.3



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