From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Michael Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] vhost-vdpa: allow pre-opend file descriptor
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:04:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29454777-87fa-c42c-122b-bef4fd708464@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACLfguWu6fu3_PkfcTLZriTk=BqWk4a+=myfH+cFpQuHLu0koQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/31/20 6:16 AM, Cindy Lu wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 16:30, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> This patch allows to initialize vhost-vdpa network backend with pre
>> opened vhost-vdpa file descriptor. This is useful for running
>> unprivileged qemu through libvirt.
>>
>> Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> +++ b/qapi/net.json
>> @@ -442,12 +442,15 @@
>> # @queues: number of queues to be created for multiqueue vhost-vdpa
>> # (default: 1)
>> #
>> +# @fd: file descriptor of an already opened vhost-vdpa (since 5.2)
>> +#
>> # Since: 5.1
>> ##
>> { 'struct': 'NetdevVhostVDPAOptions',
>> 'data': {
>> '*vhostdev': 'str',
>> - '*queues': 'int' } }
>> + '*queues': 'int',
>> + '*fd': 'str' } }
>>
>> ##
>> # @NetClientDriver:
>> --
>> 2.20.1
>>
> I think the latest code supported this part.
> you can pass a pre open file descriptor to it via the add-fd QMP
> command to /dev/fdset/NNN, and then pass the string
> "/dev/fdset/NNN" as vhostdev. so we don't need a special fd parameter here.
Correct - the 'vhostdev' parameter + magic filename is all the more that
is needed to access a pre-opened fd, so no 'fd' parameter should be added.
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-16 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-31 8:27 [PATCH 0/9] refine vhost-vdpa initialization Jason Wang
2020-08-31 8:27 ` [PATCH 1/9] vhost-vdpa: remove the default devname Jason Wang
2020-09-09 8:40 ` Laurent Vivier
2020-08-31 8:27 ` [PATCH 2/9] vhost-vdpa: mandate vhostdev Jason Wang
2020-09-09 8:42 ` Laurent Vivier
2020-08-31 8:27 ` [PATCH 3/9] vhost-vdpa: remove the unnecessary assert(s->vhost_net) Jason Wang
2020-08-31 8:27 ` [PATCH 4/9] vhost-vdpa: refine info string Jason Wang
2020-09-16 15:52 ` Laurent Vivier
2020-08-31 8:27 ` [PATCH 5/9] vhost-vdpa: remove the unnecessary initialization Jason Wang
2020-09-16 15:53 ` Laurent Vivier
2020-08-31 8:27 ` [PATCH 6/9] vhost-vdpa: remove the unnecessary queue index assignment Jason Wang
2020-09-16 15:54 ` Laurent Vivier
2020-08-31 8:27 ` [PATCH 7/9] vhost-vdpa: squash net_vhost_vdpa_init() into net_init_vhost_vdpa() Jason Wang
2020-09-16 15:58 ` Laurent Vivier
2020-08-31 8:27 ` [PATCH 8/9] vhost-vdpa: add accurate error string when fail to open vhost vDPA device Jason Wang
2020-09-16 16:09 ` Laurent Vivier
2020-08-31 8:27 ` [PATCH 9/9] vhost-vdpa: allow pre-opend file descriptor Jason Wang
2020-08-31 11:16 ` Cindy Lu
2020-09-01 6:53 ` Jason Wang
2020-09-16 16:04 ` Eric Blake [this message]
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