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

[Cindy Lu]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 4:14 AM Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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]
>
Thanks Eric for pointing that out :-), I will fix this soon.

Thanks
Cindy

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