On 2015/12/17 20:47, Yuanhan Liu wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 06:00:03PM +0900, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote: >> This helper function is used to convert port id to virtio device >> pointer. To use this function, a port should be managed by vhost PMD. >> After getting virtio device pointer, it can be used for calling vhost >> library APIs. > I'm thinking why is that necessary. I mean, hey, can we simply treat > it as a normal pmd driver, and don't consider any vhost lib functions > any more while using vhost pmd?
I guess vhost PMD cannot hide some of vhost features. Because of this, we may need to add ethdev APIs to wraps these features. I described more in one more email. Could you please see it also? Thanks, Tetsuya
