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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/4] vhost-user: Add new option to specify v
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Tetsuya Mukawa |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/4] vhost-user: Add new option to specify vhost-user backend supports |
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Thu, 28 May 2015 10:25:43 +0900 |
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On 2015/05/26 21:52, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/25/2015 10:29 PM, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote:
>
>>>>> { 'struct': 'NetdevTapOptions',
>>>>> @@ -2259,7 +2261,8 @@
>>>>> '*vhostfd': 'str',
>>>>> '*vhostfds': 'str',
>>>>> '*vhostforce': 'bool',
>>>>> - '*queues': 'uint32'} }
>>>>> + '*queues': 'uint32',
>>>>> + '*backend_features':'uint64'} }
>>>> Ewww. Making users figure out what integers to pass is NOT user
>>>> friendly. Better would be an enum type, and make the parameter an
>>>> optional array of enum values.
>>> Thanks for your comments.
>>> I guess below may be good example. Is this same as your suggestion?
>>>
>>>
>>> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet3,id=net3,gso=off,guest_tso4=off,guest_tso6=off
>>>
>>> So I will improve 'backend-features' like below.
>>>
>>> backend-features=gso=off,guest_tso4=off,guest_tso6=off
>>>
>>> Also I will fix 'qapi-schema.json' to work like above.
>> I seems it's impossible to implement like above.
>> I may need to implement like below.
>>
>> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet3,id=net3,backend_gso=on,backend_guest_tso4=on,backend_guest_tso6=on
> Or even:
>
> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet3,id=net3,backend.gso=on,backend.guest_tso4=on,backend.guest_tso6=on
>
> Look at -device for how to set up nested structs using '.' for a nice
> hierarchy of options all belonging to a common substruct.
>
I appreciate for your suggestion.
I will check '-device' option, and implement like above in v2 patch.
Tetsuya
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/4] Add feature to start QEMU without vhost-user backend, Tetsuya Mukawa, 2015/05/29