[PATCH v2] vhost: restrict set max queue pair API to VDUSE
Maxime Coquelin
maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
Mon Oct 7 09:29:31 CEST 2024
On 10/3/24 10:11, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> In order to avoid breaking Vhost-user live-migration, we want the
> rte_vhost_driver_set_max_queue_num API to only be effective with
> VDUSE.
>
> Furthermore, this API is only really needed for VDUSE where the
> device number of queues is defined by the backend. For Vhost-user,
> this is defined by the frontend (e.g. QEMU), so the advantages of
> restricting more the maximum number of queue pairs is limited to
> a small memory gain (a handful of pointers).
>
> Fixes: 4aa1f88ac13d ("vhost: add API to set max queue pairs")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
> Reported-by: Yu Jiang <yux.jiang at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> ==============
> - Document the change in the API (David)
>
> ---
>
> lib/vhost/rte_vhost.h | 2 ++
> lib/vhost/socket.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
Applied to next-virtio/for-next-net
Thanks,
Maxime
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