Hi Nikos, On 6/19/19 5:14 PM, Nikos Dragazis wrote: > The virtio-vhost-user transport requires a driver for the > virtio-vhost-user PCI device, hence it needs a virtio-pci driver. There > is currently no librte_virtio API that we can use. > > This commit is a hack that duplicates the virtio pci code from > drivers/net/ into drivers/virtio_vhost_user/. A better solution would > be to extract the code cleanly from drivers/net/ and share it. Or > perhaps we could backport SPDK's lib/virtio/.
I think it would make sense to have a Virtio library, that could be re- used by net, crypto and virtio-vhost-user. I didn't know about SPDK's lib. Maybe it is better to start from virtio- net PMD codebase and then convert crypto and SPDK to use it. What do you think? > drivers/virtio_vhost_user/ will host the virtio-vhost-user transport > implementation in the upcoming patches. Thanks, Maxime
