On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:50:58PM +0200, Dariusz Stojaczyk wrote:
> Added new callbacks to notify about socket connection status.
> As destroy_device is used for virtqueue processing *pause* as well as
> connection close, the user has no distinction between those.
>
> Consider the following scenario:
> rte_vhost: received SET_VRING_BASE message,
> calling destroy_device() as usual
>
> user: end-user asks to remove the device (together with socket file),
> OK, device is not *in use* - that's NOT the behavior we want
> calling rte_vhost_driver_unregister() etc.
>
> Instead of changing new_device/destroy_device callbacks and breaking
> the ABI, a set of new functions new_connection/destroy_connection
> has been added.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dariusz Stojaczyk <dariuszx.stojac...@intel.com>
> ---
> v3: improved err-handling path and updated commit msg
> v2: also updated vhost_lib.rst
The doc update is missing. I have cherry-picked it from v2.
Applied to dpdk-next-virtio.
Thanks.
--yliu
