[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode

[Yang, Zhiyong]

Ping Maxime, Jianfeng

Do you have any comments about the patch?

Thanks
Zhiyong

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yang, Zhiyong
> Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 1:18 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: maxime.coquelin at redhat.com; thomas at monjalon.net; Tan, Jianfeng
> <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>; Wang, Zhihong <zhihong.wang at intel.com>; Bie,
> Tiwei <tiwei.bie at intel.com>; Wang, Dong1 <dong1.wang at intel.com>; Yang,
> Zhiyong <zhiyong.yang at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v5] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode
> 
> In a container environment if the vhost-user backend restarts, there's no
> way for it to reconnect to virtio-user. To address this, support for server
> mode is added. In this mode the socket file is created by virtio- user, which
> the backend then connects to. This means that if the backend restarts, it can
> reconnect to virtio-user and continue communications.
> 
> With current implementation, LSC is enabled at virtio-user side to support to
> accept the coming connection.
> 
> Release note is updated in this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang at intel.com>
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