Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] vhost: new rte_vhost API proposal

2018-05-18 Thread Stojaczyk, DariuszX
> -Original Message- > From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefa...@redhat.com] > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 6:06 PM > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 05:55:45AM +, Stojaczyk, DariuszX wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefa...@redhat.com] > > > Sent: Frida

Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] vhost: new rte_vhost API proposal

2018-05-10 Thread Stojaczyk, DariuszX
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefa...@redhat.com] > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 12:37 AM > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 03:22:53PM +0200, Dariusz Stojaczyk wrote: > > rte_virtio would offer both vhost and virtio driver APIs. These two > > have a lot of common code for

[dpdk-dev] [RFC] vhost: new rte_vhost API proposal

2018-05-10 Thread Dariusz Stojaczyk
rte_vhost has been confirmed not to work with some Virtio devices (it's not vhost-user spec compliant, see details below) and fixing it directly would require quite a big amount of changes which would completely break backwards compatibility. This library is intended to smooth out the transition. I