[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] vhost: Support external backend only vhost-user requests

[Zhang, Roy Fan]

Tried with vhost_crypto sample APP and virtio_crypto PMD, unit test and perf test works like a charm!
Thanks Maxime!

Regards,
Fan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Maxime Coquelin
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 9:21 AM
> To: Stojaczyk, Dariusz <dariusz.stojaczyk at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org;
> i.maximets at samsung.com; Liu, Changpeng <changpeng.liu at intel.com>; Bie,
> Tiwei <tiwei.bie at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] vhost: Support external backend only
> vhost-user requests
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/20/19 3:32 PM, Stojaczyk, Dariusz wrote:
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Maxime Coquelin [mailto:maxime.coquelin at redhat.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 8:35 AM
> >> To: dev at dpdk.org; i.maximets at samsung.com; Liu, Changpeng
> >> <changpeng.liu at intel.com>; Bie, Tiwei <tiwei.bie at intel.com>;
> >> Stojaczyk, Dariusz <dariusz.stojaczyk at intel.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] vhost: Support external backend only
> >> vhost-user requests
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3/19/19 11:54 AM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> >>> The goals of this series is to provide more flexibility to external
> >>> backends to implement their specific vhost-user request handling
> >>> without having to patch vhost-user library.
> >>>
> >>> First patch implements a new API for external backend to advertize
> >>> its specific protocol features to vhost-user master.
> >>>
> >>> Second patch ensures a request not handled by the vhost-user library
> >>> but by the external backend only will not be treated as an error or
> >>> make the vhost lib to crash.
> >>>
> >>> Changes in v3:
> >>> ==============
> >>>    - Fix and improve comments (Ilya)
> >>>
> >>> Changes in v2:
> >>> ==============
> >>>    - Remove 'skip_master' param from documentation (Ilya)
> >>>    - Merge pre and post callback in a single one (Ilya)
> >>>
> >>> Changes in v1:
> >>> ==============
> >>>    - Convert vhost-crypto to the API change (Ilya)
> >>>    - Fix build with recent GCC (fall-through)
> >>>    - Check request > VHOST_USER_NONE (Ilya)
> >>>    - Remove 'Requested invalid message type' check (Ilya)
> >>>
> >>> Changes in RFC v2:
> >>> ==================
> >>>    - Fix build & git message
> >>>    - Add new enum for not handled messages & remove skip_master
> >>> (Ilya)
> >>>
> >>> Maxime Coquelin (2):
> >>>     vhost: add API to set protocol features flags
> >>>     vhost: support requests only handled by external backend
> >>>
> >>>    lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost.h           | 53 +++++++++--------
> >>>    lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map |  1 +
> >>>    lib/librte_vhost/socket.c              | 14 +++++
> >>>    lib/librte_vhost/vhost_crypto.c        | 10 +++-
> >>>    lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c          | 82 ++++++++++++++++----------
> >>>    5 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>
> >> Applied to dpdk-next-virtio/master branch.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Maxime
> >
> > Thanks Maxime,
> >
> > FYI - SPDK vhost in the upstream SPDK master is already capable of running
> against rte_vhost with those changes.
> > I have just run the full SPDK test suite against today's dpdk-next-virtio and
> everything's working.
> >
> > Thanks again!
> > D.
> >
> 
> Thanks for your feedback, that's much appreciated.
> 
> Maxime