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From: Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com, fam@euphon.net,
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Subject: [PATCH v20 02/20] multi-process: add configure and usage information
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:28:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d3cb1e2dffce3949dcd965fff4a3870913438f5.1611081587.git.jag.raman@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1611081587.git.jag.raman@oracle.com>

From: Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com>

Adds documentation explaining the command-line arguments needed
to use multi-process.

Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John G Johnson <john.g.johnson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
 docs/multi-process.rst | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 MAINTAINERS            |  1 +
 2 files changed, 65 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/multi-process.rst

diff --git a/docs/multi-process.rst b/docs/multi-process.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..46bb0ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/multi-process.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+Multi-process QEMU
+==================
+
+This document describes how to configure and use multi-process qemu.
+For the design document refer to docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess.
+
+1) Configuration
+----------------
+
+multi-process is enabled by default for targets that enable KVM
+
+
+2) Usage
+--------
+
+Multi-process QEMU requires an orchestrator to launch.
+
+Following is a description of command-line used to launch mpqemu.
+
+* Orchestrator:
+
+  - The Orchestrator creates a unix socketpair
+
+  - It launches the remote process and passes one of the
+    sockets to it via command-line.
+
+  - It then launches QEMU and specifies the other socket as an option
+    to the Proxy device object
+
+* Remote Process:
+
+  - QEMU can enter remote process mode by using the "remote" machine
+    option.
+
+  - The orchestrator creates a "remote-object" with details about
+    the device and the file descriptor for the device
+
+  - The remaining options are no different from how one launches QEMU with
+    devices.
+
+  - Example command-line for the remote process is as follows:
+
+      /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64                                        \
+      -machine x-remote                                                  \
+      -device lsi53c895a,id=lsi0                                         \
+      -drive id=drive_image2,file=/build/ol7-nvme-test-1.qcow2           \
+      -device scsi-hd,id=drive2,drive=drive_image2,bus=lsi0.0,scsi-id=0  \
+      -object x-remote-object,id=robj1,devid=lsi1,fd=4,
+
+* QEMU:
+
+  - Since parts of the RAM are shared between QEMU & remote process, a
+    memory-backend-memfd is required to facilitate this, as follows:
+
+    -object memory-backend-memfd,id=mem,size=2G
+
+  - A "x-pci-proxy-dev" device is created for each of the PCI devices emulated
+    in the remote process. A "socket" sub-option specifies the other end of
+    unix channel created by orchestrator. The "id" sub-option must be specified
+    and should be the same as the "id" specified for the remote PCI device
+
+  - Example commandline for QEMU is as follows:
+
+      -device x-pci-proxy-dev,id=lsi0,socket=3
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 56f1904..654358b 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3188,6 +3188,7 @@ M: Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
 M: John G Johnson <john.g.johnson@oracle.com>
 S: Maintained
 F: docs/devel/multi-process.rst
+F: docs/multi-process.rst
 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-19 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-19 20:28 [PATCH v20 00/20] Initial support for multi-process Qemu Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 01/20] multi-process: add the concept description to docs/devel/qemu-multiprocess Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-25 16:57   ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-01-27 16:47     ` Jag Raman
2021-01-28  9:53       ` Thanos Makatos
2021-01-19 20:28 ` Jagannathan Raman [this message]
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 03/20] memory: alloc RAM from file at offset Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 04/20] multi-process: Add config option for multi-process QEMU Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 05/20] multi-process: setup PCI host bridge for remote device Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 06/20] multi-process: setup a machine object for remote device process Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 07/20] io: add qio_channel_writev_full_all helper Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 08/20] io: add qio_channel_readv_full_all_eof & qio_channel_readv_full_all helpers Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-25 16:41   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 09/20] multi-process: define MPQemuMsg format and transmission functions Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 10/20] multi-process: Initialize message handler in remote device Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 11/20] multi-process: Associate fd of a PCIDevice with its object Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 12/20] multi-process: setup memory manager for remote device Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 13/20] multi-process: introduce proxy object Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 14/20] multi-process: add proxy communication functions Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 15/20] multi-process: Forward PCI config space acceses to the remote process Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 16/20] multi-process: PCI BAR read/write handling for proxy & remote endpoints Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 17/20] multi-process: Synchronize remote memory Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 18/20] multi-process: create IOHUB object to handle irq Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 19/20] multi-process: Retrieve PCI info from remote process Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-19 20:28 ` [PATCH v20 20/20] multi-process: perform device reset in the " Jagannathan Raman
2021-01-21 17:07 ` [PATCH v20 00/20] Initial support for multi-process Qemu Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-01-21 17:37   ` Jag Raman

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