On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:22:38AM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> Hi Jiayu,
>
> On 08/16/2016 06:14 PM, Jiayu Hu wrote:
> >In examples/vhost, "dev-basename" is a program option, which is to set
> >the vhost-net socket used by vhost-user, or the character device used
> >by vhost-cuse. Since vhost-cuse should be dropped, and "dev-basename"
> >is not a suitable name for the vhost-net socket. Therefore, this patch
> >is to change this option name for examples/vhost.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Jiayu Hu <jiayu.hu at intel.com>
> >---
> > examples/vhost/main.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
> > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/examples/vhost/main.c b/examples/vhost/main.c
> >index 92a9823..a718577 100644
> >--- a/examples/vhost/main.c
> >+++ b/examples/vhost/main.c
> >@@ -90,9 +90,6 @@
> > /* Size of buffers used for snprintfs. */
> > #define MAX_PRINT_BUFF 6072
> >
> >-/* Maximum character device basename size. */
> >-#define MAX_BASENAME_SZ 10
> >-
> > /* Maximum long option length for option parsing. */
> > #define MAX_LONG_OPT_SZ 64
> >
> >@@ -139,8 +136,8 @@ static uint32_t burst_rx_delay_time = BURST_RX_WAIT_US;
> > /* Specify the number of retries on RX. */
> > static uint32_t burst_rx_retry_num = BURST_RX_RETRIES;
> >
> >-/* Character device basename. Can be set by user. */
> >-static char dev_basename[MAX_BASENAME_SZ] = "vhost-net";
> >+/* Socket file path. Can be set by user */
> >+static char socket_file[PATH_MAX] = "vhost-net";
>
> Not very important, but now that we only support vhost-user,
> maybe we could default the name to "vhost-user"?
>
> There is no real convention I think, but this is what OVS is
> used to use in its examples.
I think it doesn't matter now, since since the 2nd patch, --socket-path
is a must but not optional any more, meaning there is no default
socket file path.
--yliu
>
> Other than that:
> Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>
> Thanks,
> Maxime
