[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] vhost: Add API to get negotiated protocol features

[Keiichi Watanabe]

Thanks for the review!
Should I send the updated version of the patch series? Or, can I ask you to
make the follow up changes as a maintainer?

Keiichi

On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 5:42 PM Kinsella, Ray <mdr at ashroe.eu> wrote:

>
>
> On 31/03/2021 17:45, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> > On 3/22/2021 7:22 AM, Keiichi Watanabe wrote:
> >> Add rte_vhost_get_negotiated_protocol_features, which returns a set of
> >> enabled protocol features.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Watanabe <keiichiw at chromium.org>
> >
> > <...>
> >
> >> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/version.map b/lib/librte_vhost/version.map
> >> index 9183d6f2f..95c4c0990 100644
> >> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/version.map
> >> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/version.map
> >> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ EXPERIMENTAL {
> >>       rte_vhost_va_from_guest_pa;
> >>       rte_vhost_extern_callback_register;
> >>       rte_vhost_driver_set_protocol_features;
> >> +    rte_vhost_get_negotiated_protocol_features;
> >>       rte_vhost_set_inflight_desc_split;
> >>       rte_vhost_set_inflight_desc_packed;
> >>       rte_vhost_set_last_inflight_io_split;
> >
> > Added the release version that experimental API is added as comment in
> next-net, like following:
> >
> > +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/version.map
> > @@ -76,4 +76,7 @@ EXPERIMENTAL {
> >         rte_vhost_async_channel_unregister;
> >         rte_vhost_submit_enqueue_burst;
> >         rte_vhost_poll_enqueue_completed;
> > +
> > +       # added in 21.05
> > +       rte_vhost_get_negotiated_protocol_features;
> >  };
> >
> >
> > We are doing this already in many libraries [1], this helps us easily
> observe how long an API is staying as experimental in a library.
>
> Good idea.
>
> > [1]:
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_eal/version.map?h=v21.02#n407
>