+/**
+ * Enable features in feature_mask. Returns 0 on success.
+ */
+int rte_vhost_feature_enable(uint64_t feature_mask);
+
+/* Returns currently supported vhost features */
+uint64_t rte_vhost_feature_get(void);
+
+int rte_vhost_enable_guest_notification(struct virtio_net *dev, uint16_t queue_id, int enable);
+
+/* Register vhost driver. dev_name could be different for multiple instance support. */
+int rte_vhost_driver_register(const char *dev_name);
+
+/* Register callbacks. */
+int rte_vhost_driver_callback_register(struct virtio_net_device_ops const * const);
+/* Start vhost driver session blocking loop. */
+int rte_vhost_driver_session_start(void);
+
+/**
+ * This function adds buffers to the virtio devices RX virtqueue. Buffers can
+ * be received from the physical port or from another virtual device. A packet
+ * count is returned to indicate the number of packets that were succesfully
+ * added to the RX queue.
+ * @param queue_id
+ * virtio queue index in mq case
+ * @return
+ * num of packets enqueued
+ */
+uint16_t rte_vhost_enqueue_burst(struct virtio_net *dev, uint16_t queue_id,
+ struct rte_mbuf **pkts, uint16_t count);
+
+/**
+ * This function gets guest buffers from the virtio device TX virtqueue,
+ * construct host mbufs, copies guest buffer content to host mbufs and
+ * store them in pkts to be processed.
+ * @param mbuf_pool
+ * mbuf_pool where host mbuf is allocated.
+ * @param queue_id
+ * virtio queue index in mq case.
+ * @return
+ * num of packets dequeued
+ */
+uint16_t rte_vhost_dequeue_burst(struct virtio_net *dev, uint16_t queue_id,
+ struct rte_mempool *mbuf_pool, struct rte_mbuf **pkts, uint16_t count);