Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] vhost_mdev: add network control vq support | From | Jason Wang <> | Date | Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:04:37 +0800 |
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On 2019/10/30 下午2:17, Tiwei Bie wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 06:51:32PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> On 2019/10/29 下午6:17, Tiwei Bie wrote: >>> This patch adds the network control vq support in vhost-mdev. >>> A vhost-mdev specific op is introduced to allow parent drivers >>> to handle the network control commands come from userspace. >> Probably work for userspace driver but not kernel driver. > Exactly. This is only for userspace. > > I got your point now. In virtio-mdev kernel driver case, > the ctrl-vq can be special as well. >
Then maybe it's better to introduce vhost-mdev-net on top?
Looking at the other type of virtio device:
- console have two control virtqueues when multiqueue port is enabled
- SCSI has controlq + eventq
- GPU has controlq
- Crypto device has one controlq
- Socket has eventq
...
Thanks
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