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From: "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] virtio/vdev: add embeded device
	emulation
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:40:46 +0800
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Hi Michael,

Don't know why, I have not received the email you comment on this commit.

On 2/5/2016 7:20 PM, Jianfeng Tan wrote:
> To implement virtio vdev, we need way to interract with vhost backend.
> And more importantly, needs way to emulate a device into DPDK. So this
> patch acts as embedded device emulation.
>
> Depends on the type of vhost file: vhost-user is used if the given
> path points to a unix socket; vhost-net is used if the given path
> points to a char device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
> ---
>   config/common_linuxapp              |   5 +
>   drivers/net/virtio/Makefile         |   4 +
>   drivers/net/virtio/vhost.h          | 194 +++++++++
>   drivers/net/virtio/vhost_embedded.c | 809 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.h  |   6 +-
>   drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci.h     |  15 +-
>   6 files changed, 1031 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/net/virtio/vhost.h
>   create mode 100644 drivers/net/virtio/vhost_embedded.c
>
...
> Don't hard-code this, it's not nice.

Actually, it comes from in lib/librte_vhost/rte_virtio_net.h. If we 
follow your suggestion below, it'll be addressed.

> Why do you duplicate ioctls?
> Use them from /usr/include/linux/vhost.h, etc.
>
> In fact, what's not coming from linux here
> comes from lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user/vhost-net-user.h.
>
> I think you should reuse code, avoid code duplication.

The reason I was considering is:
a. If we include /usr/include/linux/vhost.h, then virtio cannot be used 
in FreeBSD.
b. To use definitions in lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user/vhost-net-user.h, 
we need expose this header file outside.

Thanks,
Jianfeng