vhost: avoid populate guest memory
authorJianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 06:56:07 +0000 (06:56 +0000)
committerFerruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:25:45 +0000 (17:25 +0200)
commit768274ebbd5e532134420146cc26b1ff4b607740
tree918fc11887e40bd0f2992c828fefee862eb26c1d
parentd64c43773abe9326cc028ecda81b8f9e4117b551
vhost: avoid populate guest memory

It's not necessary to populate guest memory from vhost side unless
zerocopy is enabled or users want better performance.

Update the doc for guest memory requirement clarification.

Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst
doc/guides/sample_app_ug/vhost.rst
lib/librte_vhost/vhost_user.c