[dpdk-dev] vhost: add virtio configuration space access socket messages

[Liu, Changpeng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maxime Coquelin [mailto:maxime.coquelin at redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 6:05 PM
> To: Liu, Changpeng <changpeng.liu at intel.com>; Ilya Maximets
> <i.maximets at samsung.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Stojaczyk, Dariusz <dariusz.stojaczyk at intel.com>; Bie, Tiwei
> <tiwei.bie at intel.com>; Wang, Zhihong <zhihong.wang at intel.com>; Jason Wang
> <jasowang at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: vhost: add virtio configuration space access socket messages
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/27/19 10:50 AM, Liu, Changpeng wrote:
> >> What we need to do is fix vhost lib so that you don't have anything to
> >> do in dpdk to add support for the new requests.
> >>
> >> So we need to fix the few bits in vhost_user_msg_handler() I mentionned
> >> yesterday. And I also notice we are missing
> >> rte_vhost_driver_set_protocol_feature(), so that you can advertise
> >> VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG support by your external backend.
> > Sounds good to me, I will not post a new version and wait for the new API.
> 
> I just posted the RFC, could you try it and let us know if it works for
> you?
Yeah, it can work for us. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Maxime
> 
> >> I'll try to cook the dpdk patch today.
> >>
> >> Cheers,