Re: Using RPMSG to communicate between host and guest drivers

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On 7/31/24 4:02 PM, Doug Miller wrote:
> I am working on SR-IOV support for a new adapter which has shared 
> resources between the PF and VFs and requires an out-of-band (outside 
> the adapter) communication mechanism to manage those resources. I have 
> been looking at RPMSG as a mechanism to communicate between the driver 
> on a guest (VM) and the driver on the host OS (which "owns" the 
> resources). It appears to me that virtio is intended for communication 
> between guests and host, and RPMSG over virtio is what I want to use.
> 
> Can anyone confirm that RPMSG is capable of doing what we need? If so, 
> I'll need some help figuring out how to use that from kernel device 
> drivers (I've not been able to find any examples of doing the 
> service/device side). If not, is there some other facility that is 
> better suited?

Hi Bjorn and Mathieu, any advice here for Doug? Adding linux-rdma folks as that
is where this will eventually target.

-Denny





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