Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/4] vhost-user: Add new option to specify vhost-user backend supports

[Eric Blake]

On 05/25/2015 10:29 PM, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:

>>>>  { 'struct': 'NetdevTapOptions',
>>>> @@ -2259,7 +2261,8 @@
>>>>      '*vhostfd':    'str',
>>>>      '*vhostfds':   'str',
>>>>      '*vhostforce': 'bool',
>>>> -    '*queues':     'uint32'} }
>>>> +    '*queues':     'uint32',
>>>> +    '*backend_features':'uint64'} }
>>> Ewww. Making users figure out what integers to pass is NOT user
>>> friendly.  Better would be an enum type, and make the parameter an
>>> optional array of enum values.
>> Thanks for your comments. 
>> I guess below may be good example. Is this same as your suggestion?
>>
>>  virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet3,id=net3,gso=off,guest_tso4=off,guest_tso6=off
>>
>> So I will improve 'backend-features' like below.
>>
>>  backend-features=gso=off,guest_tso4=off,guest_tso6=off
>>
>> Also I will fix 'qapi-schema.json' to work like above.
> 
> I seems it's impossible to implement like above.
> I may need to implement like below.
> 
> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet3,id=net3,backend_gso=on,backend_guest_tso4=on,backend_guest_tso6=on

Or even:

virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet3,id=net3,backend.gso=on,backend.guest_tso4=on,backend.guest_tso6=on

Look at -device for how to set up nested structs using '.' for a nice
hierarchy of options all belonging to a common substruct.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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