On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 11:07:14AM +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> > Acked-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane at bigswitch.com> > Tested-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane at bigswitch.com> > --- > MAINTAINERS | 5 + > config/common_base | 6 + > config/common_linuxapp | 1 + > doc/guides/nics/index.rst | 1 +
This adds a new entry for vhost PMD into the index, but there is no vhost.rst file present in this patchset. Did you forget to add it? > doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_04.rst | 4 + > drivers/net/Makefile | 4 + > drivers/net/vhost/Makefile | 62 ++ > drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c | 916 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.h | 109 ++++ > drivers/net/vhost/rte_pmd_vhost_version.map | 10 + > mk/rte.app.mk | 6 + > 11 files changed, 1124 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/Makefile > create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c > create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.h > create mode 100644 drivers/net/vhost/rte_pmd_vhost_version.map <snip> /Bruce
