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From: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Elena Ufimtseva" <elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com>,
	"Fam Zheng" <fam@euphon.net>,
	"Matthew Rosato" <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>,
	"John G Johnson" <john.g.johnson@oracle.com>,
	"David Hildenbrand" <david@redhat.com>,
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	kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org,
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	"Christian Borntraeger" <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	vgoyal@redhat.com, "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
	"Sergio Lopez" <slp@redhat.com>,
	"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] docs: vhost-user: add subsection for non-Linux platforms
Date: Thu,  3 Mar 2022 12:59:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220303115911.20962-5-slp@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220303115911.20962-1-slp@redhat.com>

Add a section explaining how vhost-user is supported on platforms
other than Linux.

Signed-off-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
---
 docs/interop/vhost-user.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
index edc3ad84a3..590a626b92 100644
--- a/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
+++ b/docs/interop/vhost-user.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,24 @@ conventions <backend_conventions>`.
 *Master* and *slave* can be either a client (i.e. connecting) or
 server (listening) in the socket communication.
 
+Support for platforms other than Linux
+--------------------------------------
+
+While vhost-user was initially developed targeting Linux, nowadays is
+supported on any platform that provides the following features:
+
+- The ability to share a mapping injected into the guest between
+  multiple processes, so both QEMU and the vhost-user daemon servicing
+  the device can access simultaneously the memory regions containing
+  the virtqueues and the data associated with each request.
+
+- AF_UNIX sockets with SCM_RIGHTS, so QEMU can communicate with the
+  vhost-user daemon and send it file descriptors when needed.
+
+- Either eventfd or pipe/pipe2. On platforms where eventfd is not
+  available, QEMU will automatically fallback to pipe2 or, as a last
+  resort, pipe.
+
 Message Specification
 =====================
 
-- 
2.35.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-03 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-03 11:59 [PATCH v3 0/4] Enable vhost-user to be used on BSD systems Sergio Lopez
2022-03-03 11:59 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] event_notifier: add event_notifier_get_wfd() Sergio Lopez
2022-03-03 11:59 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] vhost: use wfd on functions setting vring call fd Sergio Lopez
2022-03-03 11:59 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] configure, meson: allow enabling vhost-user on all POSIX systems Sergio Lopez
2022-03-03 11:59 ` Sergio Lopez [this message]
2022-03-03 14:34   ` [PATCH v3 4/4] docs: vhost-user: add subsection for non-Linux platforms Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-03-04 10:35   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2022-03-04 10:50     ` Sergio Lopez
2022-03-03 14:35 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Enable vhost-user to be used on BSD systems Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-03-04 10:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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