[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] examples/vhost: introduce a new vhost-user-scsi sample application

Hemant Agrawal hemant.agrawal at nxp.com
Fri Jul 7 10:40:57 CEST 2017


On 7/7/2017 10:37 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 01:21:37PM +0800, Changpeng Liu wrote:
>> vhost-user protocol is common to many virtio devices, such as
>> virtio_net/virtio_scsi/virtio_blk. Since DPDK vhost library
>> removed the NET specific data structures, the vhost library
>> is common to other virtio devices, such as virtio-scsi.
>>
>> Here we introduce a simple memory based block device that
>> can be presented to Guest VM through vhost-user-scsi-pci
>> controller. Similar with vhost-net, the sample application
>> will process the I/Os sent via virt rings.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Changpeng Liu <changpeng.liu at intel.com>
>
> Applied to dpdk-next-virtio.
>

Though my comment is late.
I am just wondering if it is not better to refactor the existing vhost 
applications and add this as a mode instead of adding one more sample 
application?

> Thanks.
>
> 	--yliu
>




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