Existing vhost-user device backends, including vhost-user-scsi and
vhost-user-blk, support multiqueue but libvhost-user currently does not
advertise this.
VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_MQ enables the VHOST_USER_GET_QUEUE_NUM request
needed for a vhost-user master to query the number of queues. For
example, QEMU's vhost-user-net master depends on
VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_MQ for multiqueue.
If you're wondering how any device backend with more than one virtqueue
functions today, it's because device types with a fixed number of
virtqueues do not require querying the number of queues. Therefore the
vhost-user master for vhost-user-input with 2 virtqueues, for example,
doesn't actually depend on VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_MQ. It just enables
virtqueues 0 and 1 without asking.
Let there be multiqueue!
Suggested-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190626074815.19994-4-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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