Hi, I will fix to add signed-off-by and correct spelling error according to test-report@dpdk. Please check the content until then.
Thanks. On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 15:25:06 +0900 o...@valinux.co.jp wrote: > From: Itsuro Oda <o...@valinux.co.jp> > > vhost PMD has not been available for secondary processes since > DPDK v18.11. (https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194) > (for a long term !) > This series of patches intend to make vhost PMD available for > secondary processes. > Because now setting vhost driver to communicate with a vhost-user > master (ex. Qemu) is accomplished by the probe function of the > primary process, only the primary process can be a vhost-user > slave. > With this patch, setting vhost driver is delayed at eth_dev > configuration in order to be able to set it from a secondary > process. Because (in the first place,) setting vhost driver is not > necessary to be done at probe (it is enough to be done up to eth_dev > start), this fix is no problem for the primary process. > There is a precondition that the same process has to operate > a vhost interface from begining to end (eth_dev configuration to > eth_dev close). (This patch leaves it to user's responsibility.) > This precondition will not be a problem in most use cases > (including SPP). > > Itsuro Oda (4): > net/vhost: remove an unused member > net/vhost: allocate iface_name from heap > net/vhost: delay vhost driver setup > net/vhost: make secondary probe complete > > drivers/net/vhost/rte_eth_vhost.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++------------- > 1 file changed, 88 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.17.0 -- Itsuro ODA <o...@valinux.co.jp>
