Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 3 authors, 2025-06-15

Re: [PATCH v11 1/3] vhost: Add a new parameter in vhost_dev to allow user select kthread

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Date: 2025-06-12 06:12:48
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On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM Cindy Lu [off-list ref] wrote:
The vhost now uses vhost_task and workers as a child of the owner thread.
While this aligns with containerization principles, it confuses some
legacy userspace applications, therefore, we are reintroducing kthread
API support.

Introduce a new parameter to enable users to choose between kthread and
task mode.

Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <redacted>
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Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

Thanks
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