From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: marcandre.lureau@redhat.com
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 14/14] Add virtio-gpu vhost-user backend
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:54:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1465196085.24775.185.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465076003-26291-15-git-send-email-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
On Sa, 2016-06-04 at 23:33 +0200, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
>
> Add to virtio-gpu devices a "vhost-user" property. When set, the
> associated vhost-user backend is used to handle the virtio rings.
>
> For now, a socketpair is created for the backend to share the rendering
> results with qemu via a simple VHOST_GPU protocol.
Can you give a design overview?
On a first look this seems to not share much code with virtio-gpu
either, so I guess it makes sense to put this into a separate
virtio-gpu-vhost device too.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-06 6:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-04 21:33 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/14] vhost-user backends for gpu & input virtio devices marcandre.lureau
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 01/14] Add qemu_chr_open_socket() marcandre.lureau
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 02/14] Add vhost-user-backend marcandre.lureau
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 03/14] vhost-user: split vhost_user_read() marcandre.lureau
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 04/14] vhost-user: add vhost_user_input_get_config() marcandre.lureau
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 05/14] Add vhost-user backend to virtio-input-host marcandre.lureau
2016-06-06 6:22 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 06/14] contrib: add vhost-user-input marcandre.lureau
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 07/14] misc: rename virtio-gpu.h header guard marcandre.lureau
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 08/14] vhost: make sure call fd has been received marcandre.lureau
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 09/14] qemu-char: use READ_RETRIES marcandre.lureau
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 10/14] qemu-char: block during sync read marcandre.lureau
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 11/14] console: add dpy_gl_scanout2() marcandre.lureau
2016-06-06 6:35 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-06-06 13:18 ` Marc-André Lureau
2016-06-06 14:04 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 12/14] contrib: add vhost-user-gpu marcandre.lureau
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 13/14] vhost-user: add vhost_user_gpu_set_socket() marcandre.lureau
2016-06-06 6:36 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-06-04 21:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 14/14] Add virtio-gpu vhost-user backend marcandre.lureau
2016-06-06 6:54 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2016-06-06 13:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/14] vhost-user backends for gpu & input virtio devices Marc-André Lureau
2016-06-07 14:47 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-06-07 15:01 ` Marc-André Lureau
2016-06-08 6:11 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-06-08 12:53 ` Marc-André Lureau
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