[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/2] Virtio-net PMD Extension to work on host

2016-01-11 Thread Tan, Jianfeng
Hi Tetsuya, > With current your implementation, when 'virtual' virtio-net PMD is used, > 'phys_addr' will be virtual address in EAL layer. > > struct rte_memseg { > phys_addr_t phys_addr; /**< Start physical address. */ > union { > void *addr; /**< S

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/2] Virtio-net PMD Extension to work on host

2016-01-06 Thread Tetsuya Mukawa
On 2016/01/06 14:42, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: > > > On 1/6/2016 11:57 AM, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote: >> On 2015/12/28 20:06, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote: >>> On 2015/12/24 23:05, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: Hi Tetsuya, After several days' studying your patch, I have some questions as follows: >>>

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/2] Virtio-net PMD Extension to work on host

2016-01-06 Thread Tan, Jianfeng
On 1/6/2016 11:57 AM, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote: > On 2015/12/28 20:06, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote: >> On 2015/12/24 23:05, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: >>> Hi Tetsuya, >>> >>> After several days' studying your patch, I have some questions as follows: >>> >>> 1. Is physically-contig memory really necessary? >>> Thi

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/2] Virtio-net PMD Extension to work on host

2016-01-06 Thread Tetsuya Mukawa
On 2015/12/28 20:06, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote: > On 2015/12/24 23:05, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: >> Hi Tetsuya, >> >> After several days' studying your patch, I have some questions as follows: >> >> 1. Is physically-contig memory really necessary? >> This is a too strong requirement IMHO. IVSHMEM doesn't req

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/2] Virtio-net PMD Extension to work on host

2015-12-28 Thread Tetsuya Mukawa
On 2015/12/24 23:05, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: > Hi Tetsuya, > > After several days' studying your patch, I have some questions as follows: > > 1. Is physically-contig memory really necessary? > This is a too strong requirement IMHO. IVSHMEM doesn't require this in its > original meaning. So how do you

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/2] Virtio-net PMD Extension to work on host

2015-12-24 Thread Tan, Jianfeng
Hi Tetsuya, After several days' studying your patch, I have some questions as follows: 1. Is physically-contig memory really necessary? This is a too strong requirement IMHO. IVSHMEM doesn't require this in its original meaning. So how do you think of Huawei Xie's idea of using virtual address f

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 0/2] Virtio-net PMD Extension to work on host

2015-12-16 Thread Tetsuya Mukawa
[Change log] PATCH v1: (Just listing functionality changes and important bug fix) * Support virtio-net interrupt handling. (It means virtio-net PMD on host and guest have same virtio-net features) * Fix memory allocation method to allocate contiguous memory correctly. * Port Hotplug is supported