From patchwork Wed Feb 27 10:02:33 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Maxime Coquelin X-Patchwork-Id: 50537 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0314C8B; Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:02:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12DF4C77 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:02:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DEF4A3002F00; Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ovpn-112-64.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.112.64]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C5BC5C6AF; Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:02:38 +0000 (UTC) From: Maxime Coquelin To: dev@dpdk.org, changpeng.liu@intel.com, tiwei.bie@intel.com, i.maximets@samsung.com Cc: Maxime Coquelin Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:02:33 +0100 Message-Id: <20190227100235.14514-1-maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.16 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.44]); Wed, 27 Feb 2019 10:02:42 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 0/2] vhost: Support external backend only vhost-user requests X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" The goals of this series is to provide more flexibility to external backends to implement their specific vhost-user request handling without having to patch vhost-user library. First patch implements a new API for external backend to advertize its specific protocol features to vhost-user master. Second patch ensures a request not handled by the vhost-user library but by the external backend only will not be treated as an error or make the vhost lib to crash. Maxime Coquelin (2): vhost: add API to set protocol features flags vhost: support vhost-user request only handled by external backend lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost.h | 14 +++++++++++++ lib/librte_vhost/rte_vhost_version.map | 1 + lib/librte_vhost/socket.c | 15 ++++++++++++++ lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c | 28 ++++++++++++++------------ 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)