[dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/2] vhost: Support external backend only vhost-user requests

Maxime Coquelin maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
Wed Feb 27 11:02:33 CET 2019


The goals of this series is to provide more flexibility to external
backends to implement their specific vhost-user request handling
without having to patch vhost-user library.

First patch implements a new API for external backend to advertize
its specific protocol features to vhost-user master.

Second patch ensures a request not handled by the vhost-user library
but by the external backend only will not be treated as an error or
make the vhost lib to crash.

Maxime Coquelin (2):
  vhost: add API to set protocol features flags
  vhost: support vhost-user request only handled by external backend

 lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost.h           | 14 +++++++++++++
 lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map |  1 +
 lib/librte_vhost/socket.c              | 15 ++++++++++++++
 lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c          | 28 ++++++++++++++------------
 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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2.20.1



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