From: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
To: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Thanos Makatos" <thanos.makatos@nutanix.com>,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
"Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"John Johnson" <john.g.johnson@oracle.com>,
"Elena Ufimtseva" <elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com>,
"Jagannathan Raman" <jag.raman@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/23] vfio-user: add vfio-user class and container
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 01:58:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aElFNTG0jxH6ZckC@lent> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab28f674-918f-46dc-8ca9-c61f84711ed2@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 09:46:15AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > > can't we simply have a CONFIG option and select the device on platforms
> > > supporting it ?
> >
> > You mean always build vfio-user client rather than optionally? Why would it be
> > different from other optional components?
>
> why would it be optional ? I don't see any dependency for vfio-user-client.
> vfio-user-server depends on libvfio-user [1]. Not vfio-user-client.
> Should it ?
libvfio-user is for the server side, you are correct that the client does not
depend on it at all. (It's still actively in use.)
> > AFAIK all platforms (at least in theory) would support it.
>
> So what would be the reason for not compiling it ? It is not different
> from VFIO AFAICT.
OK, thanks. I simply didn't know qemu policy on building things in by default.
Of course I would be very happy to see it built into every qemu :)
regards
john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-11 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-07 0:10 [PATCH v3 00/23] vfio-user client John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 01/23] vfio: export PCI helpers needed for vfio-user John Levon
2025-06-10 7:00 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-10 10:47 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2025-06-10 17:38 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 02/23] vfio: enable per-IRQ MSI-X masking John Levon
2025-06-10 7:27 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-10 21:52 ` John Levon
2025-06-11 7:13 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 03/23] vfio: add per-region fd support John Levon
2025-06-10 7:42 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-10 12:34 ` John Levon
2025-06-11 7:12 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-10 16:59 ` John Levon
2025-06-10 18:15 ` John Levon
2025-06-10 10:58 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2025-06-10 11:27 ` John Levon
2025-06-10 11:57 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-10 12:13 ` John Levon
2025-06-11 7:24 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 04/23] vfio: mark posted writes in region write callbacks John Levon
2025-06-11 7:24 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 05/23] vfio-user: introduce vfio-user protocol specification John Levon
2025-06-10 9:38 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-10 9:55 ` John Levon
2025-06-10 10:12 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-10 10:22 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2025-06-10 13:06 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-10 16:55 ` John Levon
2025-06-11 11:49 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 06/23] vfio-user: add vfio-user class and container John Levon
2025-06-10 9:57 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-10 16:52 ` John Levon
2025-06-11 7:46 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-11 8:58 ` John Levon [this message]
2025-06-10 11:42 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2025-06-10 11:56 ` John Levon
2025-06-10 12:15 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-10 12:13 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-12 6:39 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-12 14:02 ` John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 07/23] vfio-user: connect vfio proxy to remote server John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 08/23] vfio-user: implement message receive infrastructure John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 09/23] vfio-user: implement message send infrastructure John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 10/23] vfio-user: implement VFIO_USER_DEVICE_GET_INFO John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 11/23] vfio-user: implement VFIO_USER_DEVICE_GET_REGION_INFO John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 12/23] vfio-user: implement VFIO_USER_REGION_READ/WRITE John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 13/23] vfio-user: set up PCI in vfio_user_pci_realize() John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 14/23] vfio-user: implement VFIO_USER_DEVICE_GET/SET_IRQ* John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 15/23] vfio-user: forward MSI-X PBA BAR accesses to server John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 16/23] vfio-user: set up container access to the proxy John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 17/23] vfio-user: implement VFIO_USER_DEVICE_RESET John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 18/23] vfio-user: implement VFIO_USER_DMA_MAP/UNMAP John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 19/23] vfio-user: implement VFIO_USER_DMA_READ/WRITE John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 20/23] vfio-user: add 'x-msg-timeout' option John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 21/23] vfio-user: support posted writes John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 22/23] vfio-user: add coalesced " John Levon
2025-06-07 0:10 ` [PATCH v3 23/23] docs: add vfio-user documentation John Levon
2025-06-12 6:57 ` [PATCH v3 00/23] vfio-user client Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-12 14:19 ` John Levon
2025-06-19 11:56 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-20 8:20 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2025-06-20 8:32 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-21 12:22 ` John Levon
2025-06-22 12:57 ` Cédric Le Goater
2025-06-23 8:36 ` John Levon
2025-06-23 16:14 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2025-06-23 16:09 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2025-06-23 17:06 ` Cédric Le Goater
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