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Add a new virtual device named virtio-user, which can be used just like
eth_ring, eth_null, etc. To reuse the code of original virtio, we do
some adjustment in virtio_ethdev.c, such as remove key _static_ of
eth_virtio_dev_init() so that it can be reused in virtual device; and
we add some check to make sure it will not crash.
Configured parameters include:
- queues (optional, 1 by default), number of queue pairs, multi-queue
not supported for now.
- cq (optional, 0 by default), not supported for now.
- mac (optional), random value will be given if not specified.
- queue_size (optional, 256 by default), size of virtqueues.
- path (madatory), path of vhost user.
When enable CONFIG_RTE_VIRTIO_USER (enabled by default), the compiled
library can be used in both VM and container environment.
Examples:
path_vhost=<path_to_vhost_user> # use vhost-user as a backend
sudo ./examples/l2fwd/build/l2fwd -c 0x100000 -n 4 \
--socket-mem 0,1024 --no-pci --file-prefix=l2fwd \
--vdev=virtio-user0,mac=00:01:02:03:04:05,path=$path_vhost -- -p 0x1
Known issues:
- Control queue and multi-queue are not supported yet.
- Cannot work with --huge-unlink.
- Cannot work with no-huge.
- Cannot work when there are more than VHOST_MEMORY_MAX_NREGIONS(8)
hugepages.
- Root privilege is a must (mainly becase of sorting hugepages according
to physical address).
- Applications should not use file name like HUGEFILE_FMT ("%smap_%d").
- Cannot work with vhost-net backend.
Signed-off-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
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DPDK is a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It supports many processor architectures and both FreeBSD and Linux. The DPDK uses the Open Source BSD license for the core libraries and drivers. The kernel components are GPLv2 licensed. Please check the doc directory for release notes, API documentation, and sample application information. For questions and usage discussions, subscribe to: users@dpdk.org Report bugs and issues to the development mailing list: dev@dpdk.org