[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] vhost: Support external backend only vhost-user requests

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 3/20/19 3:32 PM, Stojaczyk, Dariusz wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maxime Coquelin [mailto:maxime.coquelin at redhat.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 8:35 AM
>> To: dev at dpdk.org; i.maximets at samsung.com; Liu, Changpeng
>> <changpeng.liu at intel.com>; Bie, Tiwei <tiwei.bie at intel.com>; Stojaczyk,
>> Dariusz <dariusz.stojaczyk at intel.com>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] vhost: Support external backend only vhost-user
>> requests
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/19/19 11:54 AM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Changes in v3:
>>> ==============
>>>    - Fix and improve comments (Ilya)
>>>
>>> Changes in v2:
>>> ==============
>>>    - Remove 'skip_master' param from documentation (Ilya)
>>>    - Merge pre and post callback in a single one (Ilya)
>>>
>>> Changes in v1:
>>> ==============
>>>    - Convert vhost-crypto to the API change (Ilya)
>>>    - Fix build with recent GCC (fall-through)
>>>    - Check request > VHOST_USER_NONE (Ilya)
>>>    - Remove 'Requested invalid message type' check (Ilya)
>>>
>>> Changes in RFC v2:
>>> ==================
>>>    - Fix build & git message
>>>    - Add new enum for not handled messages & remove skip_master (Ilya)
>>>
>>> Maxime Coquelin (2):
>>>     vhost: add API to set protocol features flags
>>>     vhost: support requests only handled by external backend
>>>
>>>    lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost.h           | 53 +++++++++--------
>>>    lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map |  1 +
>>>    lib/librte_vhost/socket.c              | 14 +++++
>>>    lib/librte_vhost/vhost_crypto.c        | 10 +++-
>>>    lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c          | 82 ++++++++++++++++----------
>>>    5 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>> Applied to dpdk-next-virtio/master branch.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Maxime
> 
> Thanks Maxime,
> 
> FYI - SPDK vhost in the upstream SPDK master is already capable of running against rte_vhost with those changes.
> I have just run the full SPDK test suite against today's dpdk-next-virtio and everything's working.
> 
> Thanks again!
> D.
> 

Thanks for your feedback, that's much appreciated.

Maxime