Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] Re: [RESEND Patch v1 00/37] Implementation of vhost-pci for inter-vm commucation

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

On 01/05/2017 03:34 PM, Wei Wang wrote:
> Hi Marc-André
>
> On 12/20/2016 12:43 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:00 AM Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com 
>> <mailto:wei.w.wang@intel.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     This patch series implements vhost-pci, which is a point-to-point
>>     based inter-vm
>>     communication solution. The QEMU side implementation includes the
>>     vhost-user
>>     extension, vhost-pci device emulation and management. The current
>>     device part
>>     implementation is based on virtio 1.0, but it can be easily
>>     upgraded to support
>>     the upcoming virtio 1.1.
>>
>>     The current QEMU implementation supports the polling mode driver
>>     on both sides
>>     to receive packets. More features, such as interrupt support, live
>>     migration
>>     support, protected memory accesses will be added later.
>>
>>
>>
>> I highly appreciate the effort you put in splitting the patch series 
>> and commenting each, although some are probably superfluous. Before 
>> going into details, I suppose you have kernel side bits too. I'd 
>> suggest before sending individual patches for review, that you send a 
>> RFC with links to the various git trees and instructions to test the 
>> proposed device. This would really help things and potentially bring 
>> more people for testing and comments (think about libvirt side etc). 
>> Even better would be to have some tests (with qtest).
>
> The code is ready to try. I plan to clean up the driver to upstream 
> when the QEMU device part is finalized.
>
> The QEMU code is available at: git clone 
> https://github.com/wei-w-wang/vhost-pci-device
> The driver: git clone https://github.com/wei-w-wang/vhost-pci-driver
>
> I have a README.md under vhost-pci-device/ , which introduces the 
> steps to try the implementation.
> I will rename the variables/fields that you mentioned in the v2 
> version. Thanks.

README.md is under vhost-pci-driver/

Best,
Wei