Series applied to dpdk-next-virtio.
--yliu
On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 02:23:42PM -0700, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> 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
>
> ---
> 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(-)
>
> --
> 1.9.3
