doc: add vDPA in vhost guide

Signed-off-by: Zhihong Wang <zhihong.wang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic <marko.kovacevic@intel.com>
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Zhihong Wang 2018-05-25 19:40:20 +08:00 committed by Ferruh Yigit
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@ -274,3 +274,62 @@ Vhost supported vSwitch reference
For more vhost details and how to support vhost in vSwitch, please refer to
the vhost example in the DPDK Sample Applications Guide.
Vhost data path acceleration (vDPA)
-----------------------------------
vDPA supports selective datapath in vhost-user lib by enabling virtio ring
compatible devices to serve virtio driver directly for datapath acceleration.
``rte_vhost_driver_attach_vdpa_device`` is used to configure the vhost device
with accelerated backend.
Also vhost device capabilities are made configurable to adopt various devices.
Such capabilities include supported features, protocol features, queue number.
Finally, a set of device ops is defined for device specific operations:
* ``get_queue_num``
Called to get supported queue number of the device.
* ``get_features``
Called to get supported features of the device.
* ``get_protocol_features``
Called to get supported protocol features of the device.
* ``dev_conf``
Called to configure the actual device when the virtio device becomes ready.
* ``dev_close``
Called to close the actual device when the virtio device is stopped.
* ``set_vring_state``
Called to change the state of the vring in the actual device when vring state
changes.
* ``set_features``
Called to set the negotiated features to device.
* ``migration_done``
Called to allow the device to response to RARP sending.
* ``get_vfio_group_fd``
Called to get the VFIO group fd of the device.
* ``get_vfio_device_fd``
Called to get the VFIO device fd of the device.
* ``get_notify_area``
Called to get the notify area info of the queue.