Re: [RFC v3 7/8] vhost-vdpa: introduce vhost-vdpa backend

[Eric Blake]

On 5/29/20 9:06 AM, Cindy Lu wrote:
> From: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>

The original author is Tiwei Bie...

> Currently we have 2 types of vhost backends in QEMU: vhost kernel and
> vhost-user. The above patch provides a generic device for vDPA purpose,
> this vDPA device exposes to user space a non-vendor-specific configuration
> interface for setting up a vhost HW accelerator, this patch set introduces
> a third vhost backend called vhost-vdpa based on the vDPA interface.
>
> Vhost-vdpa usage:
>
>    qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -enable-kvm \
>      ......
>    -netdev type=vhost-vdpa,vhostdev=/dev/vhost-vdpa-id,id=vhost-vdpa0 \
>    -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=vhost-vdpa0,page-per-vq=on \
>
> Co-Authored-By: Lingshan zhu <lingshan.zhu@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
> ---

...but there is no S-o-b here.  Also, Co-Authored-By is an unusual tag; 
it's just as easy to spell it Signed-off-by even for co-authors.

[Pardon my delicacy in wording my response; I unfortunately lack enough 
cultural context to know a preferred name or even gender-correct 
pronouns for referring to the authors in shorthand]

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