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 \
Signed-off-by: Lingshan zhu <lingshan.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200701145538.22333-14-lulu@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
		
	
			
		
			
				
	
	
		
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| =====================
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| Vhost-vdpa Protocol
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| =====================
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| 
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| Introduction
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| =============
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| vDPA(Virtual data path acceleration) device is a device that uses
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| a datapath which complies with the virtio specifications with vendor
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| specific control path. vDPA devices can be both physically located on
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| the hardware or emulated by software.
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| 
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| This document describes the vDPA support in qemu
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| 
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| Here is the kernel commit here
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| https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4c8cf31885f69e86be0b5b9e6677a26797365e1d
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| 
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| TODO : More information will add later
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