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2018 Apr 10
2
[virtio-dev] Re: [RFC] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware vhost backend
...host-user providers, DPDK librte_vhost is one of them. FD.IO/VPP and snabbswitch have their own vhost-user providers. So I can't agree on vhost-user extension patch depends on DPDK backend. But anyway, that's the topic of another mail thread.
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> As others said, we do not need to go overeboard. A couple of small vendor-
> specific quirks in qemu isn't a big deal.
It's quite challenge to identify it's small or not, there's no uniform metric.
It's only dependent on QEMU itself, that's the obvious benefit. Tradeoff is to build the entire device driver. We don...
2018 Apr 10
0
[virtio-dev] Re: [RFC] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware vhost backend
...rlay library. Looking forward to more others' comments from community.
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> Steve
Dependency on a kernel driver is fine IMHO. It's the dependency on a
DPDK backend that makes people unhappy, since the functionality
in question is setup-time only.
As others said, we do not need to go overeboard. A couple of small
vendor-specific quirks in qemu isn't a big deal.
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> > Paolo
2018 Apr 10
4
[virtio-dev] Re: [RFC] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware vhost backend
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:pbonzini at redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 3:52 PM
> To: Bie, Tiwei <tiwei.bie at intel.com>; Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
> Cc: mst at redhat.com; alex.williamson at redhat.com; ddutile at redhat.com;
> Duyck, Alexander H <alexander.h.duyck at intel.com>; virtio-dev at lists.oasis-