I'm starting to work on the vhost ABI refactoring, that I also have to
touch the vhost example code. The vhost example code, however, is very
messy, full of __very__ long lines. This would make a later diff to
apply the new vhost API be very ugly, therefore, not friendly for review.
This is how this cleanup comes.
Besides that, there is one enhancement patch, which handles the broadcast
packets so that we could rely the ARP request packet, to let vhost-switch
be more like a real switch. There is another patch that (hopefully) would
fix the mbuf allocation failure ultimately. I also added some guidelines
there as comments to show how to count how many mbuf entries is enough for
our usage.
In another word, an example is meant to be clean/simple and with good
coding style so that people can get the usage easily. So, one way or
another, this patch is good to have, even without this ABI refactoring
stuff.
Note that I'm going to apply it before the end of this week, if no objections.
v2: - some checkpatch fixes
- cleaned the code about device statistics
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Yuanhan Liu (8):
examples/vhost: remove the non-working zero copy code
examples/vhost: remove unused macro and struct
examples/vhost: use tailq to link vhost devices
examples/vhost: use mac compare helper function directly
examples/vhost: handle broadcast packet
examples/vhost: fix mbuf allocation failure
examples/vhost: switch_worker cleanup
examples/vhost: embed statistics into vhost_dev struct
doc/guides/sample_app_ug/vhost.rst | 36 +-
examples/vhost/main.c | 2394 ++++++------------------------------
examples/vhost/main.h | 56 +-
3 files changed, 391 insertions(+), 2095 deletions(-)
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