Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Enable vhost-user to be used on BSD systems

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 07:03:15PM +0100, Sergio Lopez wrote:
> Since QEMU is already able to emulate ioeventfd using pipefd, we're already
> pretty close to supporting vhost-user on non-Linux systems.
> 
> This two patches bridge the gap by:
> 
> 1. Adding a new event_notifier_get_wfd() to return wfd on the places where
>    the peer is expected to write to the notifier.
> 
> 2. Modifying the build system to it allows enabling vhost-user on BSD.

Please update the vhost-user protocol specification. It mentions eventfd
and there needs to be a note explaining how pipes are used instead on
non-Linux platforms.

Stefan

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