Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/4] qemu-char: add the "1-server-N-client" support

[Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>]

On 11/10/2016 07:38 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:47 AM Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com 
> <mailto:wei.w.wang@intel.com>> wrote:
>
>     This patch enables a qemu server socket to be connected by multiple
>     client sockets.
>
> Thanks for sharing this early version of the series, I hope some early 
> feedback will help you. I'll be waiting for a more complete 
> implementation for detailed review.
>
> Is this patch necessary as a first step? I would rather start with  a 
> vhost-pci 1-1 Master-Slave series. Keep 1-n for a following 
> improvement. This would also probably post-pone the discussion 
> regarding connection-id, or uuid.
>
> In short, I think it would help if you can break your proposal in 
> smaller independant steps.
>

OK, we can leave this QEMU socket patch to the 2nd step.

So, I think we can have a two-step plan:
Step1: 1-1 QEMU socket based vhost-pci-net design
    Each QEMU socket manages (create/hotplug/destruction) only 1 
vhost-pci-net device. To create more vhost-pci-net devices, the slave VM 
needs to have more server sockets created at booting time.
Step2: 1-server-N-client based vhost-pci design
   A single QEMU server socket manages all the vhost-pci devices (may 
also in different device types).

Best,
Wei