On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 08:28:13PM +0900, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
> The patch introduces a new PMD. This PMD is implemented as thin wrapper
> of librte_vhost. It means librte_vhost is also needed to compile the PMD.
> The vhost messages will be handled only when a port is started. So start
> a port first, then invoke QEMU.
>
> The PMD has 2 parameters.
> - iface: The parameter is used to specify a path to connect to a
> virtio-net device.
> - queues: The parameter is used to specify the number of the queues
> virtio-net device has.
> (Default: 1)
>
> Here is an example.
> $ ./testpmd -c f -n 4 --vdev 'eth_vhost0,iface=/tmp/sock0,queues=1' -- -i
>
> To connect above testpmd, here is qemu command example.
>
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 \
> <snip>
> -chardev socket,id=chr0,path=/tmp/sock0 \
> -netdev vhost-user,id=net0,chardev=chr0,vhostforce,queues=1 \
> -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mq=on
>
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa at igel.co.jp>
> Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com>
Thanks.
--yliu
