2017-01-23 21:04, Yuanhan Liu: > I made a vhost ABI/API refactoring at v16.04, meant to avoid such issue > forever. Well, apparently, I lied. > > People are looking for more vhost-user options now days, other than > vhost-user net only. For example, SPDK (Storage Performance Development > Kit) are looking for chance of vhost-user SCSI and vhost-user block. > > Apparently, they also need a vhost-user backend, while DPDK already > has a (mature enough) backend, they don't want to implement it again > from scratch. They want to leverage the one DPDK provides. > > However, the last refactoring hasn't done that right, at least it's > not friendly for extending vhost-user to add more devices support. > For example, different virtio devices has its own feature set, while > APIs like rte_vhost_feature_disable(feature_mask) have no option to > tell the device type. Thus, a more proper API should look like: > > rte_vhost_feature_disable(device_type, feature_mask); > > Besides that, few public files and structures should be renamed, to > not let it bind to virtio-net. Specifically, they are: > > - virtio_net_device_ops --> vhost_device_ops > - rte_virtio_net.h --> rte_vhost.h > > Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan....@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monja...@6wind.com>
