New upstream version 17.11-rc3

[deb_dpdk.git] / doc / guides / prog_guide / vhost_lib.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
index 5979290..e71bdbd 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
@@ -110,6 +110,20 @@ The following is an overview of some key Vhost API functions:
       of those segments, thus the fewer the segments, the quicker we will get
       the mapping. NOTE: we may speed it by using tree searching in future.
 
+  - ``RTE_VHOST_USER_IOMMU_SUPPORT``
+
+    IOMMU support will be enabled when this flag is set. It is disabled by
+    default.
+
+    Enabling this flag makes possible to use guest vIOMMU to protect vhost
+    from accessing memory the virtio device isn't allowed to, when the feature
+    is negotiated and an IOMMU device is declared.
+
+    However, this feature enables vhost-user's reply-ack protocol feature,
+    which implementation is buggy in Qemu v2.7.0-v2.9.0 when doing multiqueue.
+    Enabling this flag with these Qemu version results in Qemu being blocked
+    when multiple queue pairs are declared.
+
 * ``rte_vhost_driver_set_features(path, features)``
 
   This function sets the feature bits the vhost-user driver supports. The
@@ -129,8 +143,7 @@ The following is an overview of some key Vhost API functions:
 
   * ``destroy_device(int vid)``
 
-    This callback is invoked when a virtio device shuts down (or when the
-    vhost connection is broken).
+    This callback is invoked when a virtio device is paused or shut down.
 
   * ``vring_state_changed(int vid, uint16_t queue_id, int enable)``
 
@@ -143,6 +156,18 @@ The following is an overview of some key Vhost API functions:
     ``VHOST_F_LOG_ALL`` will be set/cleared at the start/end of live
     migration, respectively.
 
+  * ``new_connection(int vid)``
+
+    This callback is invoked on new vhost-user socket connection. If DPDK
+    acts as the server the device should not be deleted before
+    ``destroy_connection`` callback is received.
+
+  * ``destroy_connection(int vid)``
+
+    This callback is invoked when vhost-user socket connection is closed.
+    It indicates that device with id ``vid`` is no longer in use and can be
+    safely deleted.
+
 * ``rte_vhost_driver_disable/enable_features(path, features))``
 
   This function disables/enables some features. For example, it can be used to