On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 06:44:44PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-05-19 17:28, Ferruh Yigit:
> > On 5/19/2016 9:33 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 2016-05-18 18:10, Ferruh Yigit:
> > >> Add rte_eth_from_vhost() API to create vhost PMD dynamically from
> > >> applications.
> > >
> > > How is it different from rte_eth_dev_attach() calling rte_eal_vdev_init()?
> > >
> >
> > When used rte_eth_dev_attach(), application also needs to do:
Sigh.. I was not awared that there is such interface.
> > rte_eth_dev_configure()
> > rte_eth_rx_queue_setup()
> > rte_eth_tx_queue_setup()
> > rte_eth_dev_start()
> >
> > rte_eth_from_vhost() does these internally, easier to use for applications.
>
> This argument is not sufficient.
> We are not going to add new APIs just for wrapping others.
+1.
--yliu
