Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode

2018-04-10 Thread Maxime Coquelin
On 04/08/2018 02:36 AM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: -Original Message- From: Yang, Zhiyong Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 5:26 PM To:dev@dpdk.org Cc: Yang, Zhiyong;maxime.coque...@redhat.com; Tan, Jianfeng; Bie, Tiwei; Wang, Zhihong; Wang, Dong1;tho...@monjalon.net Subject: [PATCH v7] net/virti

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode

2018-04-07 Thread Tan, Jianfeng
> -Original Message- > From: Yang, Zhiyong > Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 5:26 PM > To: dev@dpdk.org > Cc: Yang, Zhiyong; maxime.coque...@redhat.com; Tan, Jianfeng; Bie, Tiwei; > Wang, Zhihong; Wang, Dong1; tho...@monjalon.net > Subject: [PATCH v7] net/virtio-user: add support for server m

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] net/virtio-user: add support for server mode

2018-04-06 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,