> -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maxime Coquelin > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 4:32 PM > To: [email protected]; Liu, Changpeng <[email protected]>; Bie, Tiwei > <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Cc: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 2/2] vhost: support requests only handled by > external backend > > External backends may have specific requests to handle, and so > we don't want the vhost-user lib to handle these requests as > errors. > > This patch also changes the experimental API by introducing > RTE_VHOST_MSG_RESULT_NOT_HANDLED so that vhost-user lib > can report an error if a message is handled neither by > the vhost-user library nor by the external backend. > > The logic changes a bit so that if the callback returns > with ERR, OK or REPLY, it is considered the message > is handled by the external backend so it won't be > handled by the vhost-user library. > It is still possible for an external backend to listen > to requests that have to be handled by the vhost-user > library like SET_MEM_TABLE, but the callback have to > return NOT_HANDLED in that case. > > Suggested-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]> > ---
Besides the fall-through compilation issue, Tested-by: Darek Stojaczyk <[email protected]> Thanks!
