[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v11 2/2] vhost: Add VHOST PMD

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 11:07:14AM +0900, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
> The patch introduces a new PMD. This PMD is implemented as thin wrapper
> of librte_vhost. It means librte_vhost is also needed to compile the PMD.
> The vhost messages will be handled only when a port is started. So start
> a port first, then invoke QEMU.
> 
> The PMD has 2 parameters.
>  - iface:  The parameter is used to specify a path to connect to a
>            virtio-net device.
>  - queues: The parameter is used to specify the number of the queues
>            virtio-net device has.
>            (Default: 1)
> 
> Here is an example.
> $ ./testpmd -c f -n 4 --vdev 'eth_vhost0,iface=/tmp/sock0,queues=1' -- -i
> 
> To connect above testpmd, here is qemu command example.
> 
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 \
>         <snip>
>         -chardev socket,id=chr0,path=/tmp/sock0 \
>         -netdev vhost-user,id=net0,chardev=chr0,vhostforce,queues=1 \
>         -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mq=on
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa at igel.co.jp>
> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane at bigswitch.com>
> Tested-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane at bigswitch.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                                 |   5 +
>  config/common_base                          |   6 +
>  config/common_linuxapp                      |   1 +
>  doc/guides/nics/index.rst                   |   1 +

This adds a new entry for vhost PMD into the index, but there is no vhost.rst
file present in this patchset. Did you forget to add it?

>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst      |   4 +
>  drivers/net/Makefile                        |   4 +
>  drivers/net/vhost/Makefile                  |  62 ++
>  drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c           | 916 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.h           | 109 ++++
>  drivers/net/vhost/rte_pmd_vhost_version.map |  10 +
>  mk/rte.app.mk                               |   6 +
>  11 files changed, 1124 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/rte_pmd_vhost_version.map
<snip>

/Bruce