[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost-user: enable virtio 1.0

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at redhat.com
Sun Oct 18 09:04:06 CEST 2015


On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 02:52:30PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 04:18:59PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 02:08:39PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> > > Make vhost-user virtio 1.0 compatible by adding it to the
> > > supported features and keeping the header length
> > > the same as for mergeable RX buffers.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Looks good to me
> > 
> > Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Just one question: dpdk is only supported on little-endian
> > platforms at the moment, right?
> 
> A recent release added in support for PPC (patches supplied by IBM). For 
> example, see: 
> http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=704ba3770032c5a901719d3837845581d5a56b58
> 
> /Bruce

This will require more work then as 1.0 is a different
endian-ness from 0.9. It's up to you guys to decide
whether correct BE support is now a requirement for all
new dpdk code. Let us know.

-- 
MST


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