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

Wang, Xiao W xiao.w.wang at intel.com
Mon Dec 17 15:41:58 CET 2018


Thanks for the confirmation.

BRs,
Xiao

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maxime Coquelin [mailto:maxime.coquelin at redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 7:03 PM
> 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
> 
> Hi Xiao,
> 
> On 12/17/18 9:51 AM, Wang, Xiao W wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I got the confirmation from a native speaker that mediate sounds wrong
> in this context, and mediated should be used.
> 
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 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


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