Re: Intention to work on GSoC project

[Sahil <icegambit91@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Thank you for your email.

On Thursday, March 14, 2024 8:39:45 PM IST Eugenio Perez Martin wrote:
> Hi Sahil,
> 
> It's being hard to find a good self-contained small task related to
> the project to be honest. As it would be out of SVQ, would it be ok
> for you if we start straight to the task of adding the packed vq
> format to SVQ?
> 
> Thanks!

Sure, this works too! I would love to get started with the project.

I have a small update as well. I have read through a few docs and
articles to familiarize myself with the relevant terminology and
technicalities.

1. "About", "system emulation" and "user mode emulation" sections of
    the user documentation [1]
2. The migration subsystem [2]

Some sections in the above docs were difficult to grasp. For the time
being, I have focused on those parts that I thought were relevant
to the project.

I have also read through the following articles:

1. Introduction to virtio-networking and vhost-net [3]
2. Deep dive into Virtio-networking and vhost-net [4]
3. Virtualized Hardware Devices [5]
4. VFIO - "Virtual Function I/O" (Just the introduction) [6]
5. Virtio-net failover: An introduction [7]

I hope I haven't gone off on a tangent. I was planning to finish reading
up on the following articles as well:

1. Virtqueues and virtio ring: How the data travels [8]
2. Packed virtqueue: How to reduce overhead with virtio [9]
3. Virtio live migration technical deep dive [10]
4. Hands on vDPA: what do you do when you ain't got the hardware v2 (Part 1) [11]

I believe the hands-on vPDA article will have me set up a development
environment for the project as well.

Please let me know if I should amend my roadmap. I am
excited to get started :)

Thanks,
Sahil

[1] https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/index.html
[2] https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/migration/index.html
[3] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introduction-virtio-networking-and-vhost-net
[4] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/deep-dive-virtio-networking-and-vhost-net
[5] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/virtualization_getting_started_guide/sec-virtualization_getting_started-products-virtualized-hardware-devices
[6] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/vfio.html
[7] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/virtio-net-failover-introduction
[8] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/virtqueues-and-virtio-ring-how-data-travels
[9] https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/02/21/virtio-live-migration-technical-deep-dive
[10] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/packed-virtqueue-how-reduce-overhead-virtio
[11] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/hands-vdpa-what-do-you-do-when-you-aint-got-hardware-part-1