Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode

2018-04-06 Thread Yang, Zhiyong
Hi Jianfeng, > -Original Message- > From: Tan, Jianfeng > Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 2:13 AM > To: Yang, Zhiyong ; dev@dpdk.org > Cc: maxime.coque...@redhat.com; Bie, Tiwei ; Wang, > Dong1 ; Wang, Zhihong > Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode > > > > O

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode

2018-04-05 Thread Tan, Jianfeng
On 4/6/2018 8:18 AM, zhiyong.y...@intel.com wrote: In a container environment if the vhost-user backend restarts, there's no way for it to reconnect to virtio-user. To address this, support for server mode is added. In this mode the socket file is created by virtio- user, which the backend then

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode

2018-04-05 Thread zhiyong . yang
In a container environment if the vhost-user backend restarts, there's no way for it to reconnect to virtio-user. To address this, support for server mode is added. In this mode the socket file is created by virtio- user, which the backend then connects to. This means that if the backend restarts,