Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost-pci and virtio-vhost-user

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 03:36:19AM +0000, Wang, Wei W wrote:
> On Friday, January 12, 2018 6:38 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 02:44:00PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> > > On 01/11/2018 05:56 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 6:31 AM, Wei Wang <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> > > > > On 01/11/2018 12:14 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > I think the virtio-vhost-user end result is worth it though: vhost devices 
> > like
> > examples/vhost/ and examples/vhost/scsi/ will work with both AF_UNIX and
> > virtio-vhost-user.  This makes it simpler for users and vhost device
> > developers - you only have one implementation of net, scsi, blk, etc 
> > devices.
> 
> For the driver part, isn't it that net, scsi, blk will have their own 
> separate implementation on top of the common libret_vhost?

Yes.

The following DPDK components use librte_vhost:

drivers/net/vhost
examples/tep_termination
examples/vhost
examples/vhost_scsi

They will all be able to use virtio-vhost-user.

Stefan

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