[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/3] vhost: Add helper function to convert port id to virtio device pointer

Tetsuya Mukawa mukawa at igel.co.jp
Fri Dec 18 04:15:49 CET 2015


On 2015/12/17 20:47, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 06:00:03PM +0900, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
>> This helper function is used to convert port id to virtio device
>> pointer. To use this function, a port should be managed by vhost PMD.
>> After getting virtio device pointer, it can be used for calling vhost
>> library APIs.
> I'm thinking why is that necessary. I mean, hey, can we simply treat
> it as a normal pmd driver, and don't consider any vhost lib functions
> any more while using vhost pmd?

I guess vhost PMD cannot  hide some of vhost features.
Because of this, we may need to add ethdev APIs to wraps these features.
I described more in one more email. Could you please see it also?

Thanks,
Tetsuya




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