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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] vhost: enable for all targets
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:04:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6cd98ced-a043-18c0-3aa5-4cda15c76ec5@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181126173604-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

On 26/11/18 23:43, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 02:20:38PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> vhost does not have to be supported only if KVM is present, in fact
>> vhost-user does not even need any kind of kernel support.  This series
>> changes this.  The rationale is that, when vhost-user-test.c will be
>> converted to qgraph, it will be able to test vhost-user support
>> for virtio-mmio backend even on x86.
> 
> The reason for limiting it to KVM was very simple:
> it has the same set of problems with ordering
> as mttcg.
> 
> So I guess it's fine but I think we must then limit it
> to when tcg emits fence instructions.
> 
> Otherwise we'll get subtle race conditions.

Got it, I'll take a look.  However, right now you _can_ use vhost with
tcg as long as e.g. qemu-system-x86_64 is compiled with KVM support, so
this patch is not changing anything in this respect; the bug is
independent of this series.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-27  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-26 13:20 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] vhost: enable for all targets Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-26 13:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] vhost-net: move stubs to a separate file Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-26 13:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] vhost-net-user: add stubs for when no virtio-net device is present Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-26 16:45   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-11-26 22:43     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-26 22:52       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-11-26 13:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] vhost: restrict Linux dependency to kernel vhost Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-26 16:51   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-11-26 13:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] vhost-net: compile it on all targets that have virtio-net Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-26 16:55   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-11-26 13:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] vhost-net: revamp configure logic Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-26 17:00   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-11-26 22:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] vhost: enable for all targets Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-27  9:04   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-11-27 16:27     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-11-27 17:00       ` Paolo Bonzini

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