[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 03/10] vhost: provide helpers for virtio ring relay

[Wang, Xiao W]

Hi Maxime,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maxime Coquelin [mailto:maxime.coquelin at redhat.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2018 1:11 AM
> To: Wang, Xiao W <xiao.w.wang at intel.com>; Bie, Tiwei <tiwei.bie at intel.com>
> Cc: alejandro.lucero at netronome.com; dev at dpdk.org; Wang, Zhihong
> <zhihong.wang at intel.com>; Ye, Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/10] vhost: provide helpers for virtio ring relay
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/14/18 10:16 PM, Xiao Wang wrote:
> > This patch provides two helpers for vdpa device driver to perform a
> > relay between the guest virtio ring and a mediate virtio ring.
> 
> s/mediate/mediated/ ?
> I'm not 100% sure, but if it is mediated, please change everywhere else
> in the patch.

"mediate" can also be used as an adjective, so "mediate" is OK here.

> 
> >
> > The available ring relay will synchronize the available entries, and
> > helps to do desc validity checking.
> 
> s/helps/help/

Yes, will update.

> 
> >
> > The used ring relay will synchronize the used entries from mediate ring
> > to guest ring, and helps to do dirty page logging for live migration.
> 
> s/helps/help/

Will update.

Thanks for the comments,
Xiao

> 
> >
> > The next patch will leverage these two helpers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang <xiao.w.wang at intel.com>
> > ---
> >   lib/librte_vhost/rte_vdpa.h            |  39 +++++++
> >   lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map |   2 +
> >   lib/librte_vhost/vdpa.c                | 194
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   lib/librte_vhost/vhost.h               |  40 +++++++
> >   lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c          |  39 -------
> >   5 files changed, 275 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> 
> Appart from that:
> Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks,
> Maxime