On Sun 6/19/2016 10:14 PM, Wei Wang wrote: > This RFC proposes a design of vhost-pci, which is a new virtio device type. > The vhost-pci device is used for inter-VM communication. > > Changes in v2: > 1. changed the vhost-pci driver to use a controlq to send acknowledgement > messages to the vhost-pci server rather than writing to the device > configuration space; > > 2. re-organized all the data structures and the description layout; > > 3. removed the VHOST_PCI_CONTROLQ_UPDATE_DONE socket message, which > is redundant; > > 4. added a message sequence number to the msg info structure to identify > socket > messages, and the socket message exchange does not need to be blocking; > > 5. changed to used uuid to identify each VM rather than using the QEMU process > id > One more point should be added is that the server needs to send periodic socket messages to check if the driver VM is still alive. I will add this message support in next version. (*v2-AR1*) > Wei Wang (1): > Vhost-pci RFC v2: a new virtio device for inter-VM communication > > vhost-pci.patch | 341 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 341 insertions(+) > create mode 100755 vhost-pci.patch > Hi Michael, Would you be able to look into the design? Thanks. Best, Wei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
