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Re: [Qemu-devel] custom virt-io support (in user-mode-linux)
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] custom virt-io support (in user-mode-linux) |
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Thu, 23 May 2019 15:41:18 +0100 |
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 3:25 PM Johannes Berg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Not sure I understand why there's all this stuff about multiple FDs,
> once you have access to the guest's memory, why do you still need a
> second (or more) FDs?
The memory regions could be different files (maybe additional RAM was
hotplugged later).
> Also, not sure I understand how the client is started?
The vhost-user device backend can be launched before QEMU. QEMU is
started with the UNIX domain socket path so it can connect.
QEMU itself doesn't fork+exec the vhost-user device backend. It's
expected that the user or the management stack has already launched
the vhost-user device backend.
> Once we have a connection, I guess as a client I'd at the very least
> have to handle
> * VHOST_USER_GET_FEATURES and reply with the features, obviously, which
> is in this case just VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES?
>
> * VHOST_USER_SET_FEATURES - not sure, what would that do? the master
> sends VHOST_USER_GET_PROTOCOL_FEATURES which is with this feature
> bit? Especially since it says: "Slave that reported
> VHOST_USER_F_PROTOCOL_FEATURES must support this message even before
> VHOST_USER_SET_FEATURES was called."
>
> * VHOST_USER_GET_PROTOCOL_FEATURES - looking at the list, most I don't
> really need here, but OK
>
> * VHOST_USER_SET_OWNER - ??
>
> * VHOST_USER_RESET_OWNER - ignore
>
> * VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE - store the data/FDs for later use, I guess
>
> * VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_NUM - store the data for later use
> * VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_ADDR - dito
> * VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_BASE - dito
> * VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_KICK - start epoll on the FD (assuming there is
> one, give up if not?) - well, if ring is
> enabled?
> * VHOST_USER_SET_VRING_CALL - ...
>
> I guess there might be better documentation on the ioctl interfaces?
>
>
> Do you know if there's a sample client/server somewhere?
See contrib/libvhost-user in the QEMU source tree as well as the
vhost-user-blk and vhost-user-scsi examples in the contrib/ directory.
Stefan