From: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.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
next prev 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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