Re: [RFC PATCH for 8.0] backends/vhost-user: relax the ioeventfd check

2022-12-19 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 at 08:23, Alex Bennée wrote: > > While you certainly need ioeventfds to work for KVM guests it > shouldn't be limited to that. We can run vhost-user backends for TCG > guests and either use ioeventfds or in band signalling. I suggest tweaking this sentence so it's clear that

Re: [RFC PATCH for 8.0] backends/vhost-user: relax the ioeventfd check

2022-12-19 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 05:48:50PM +, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Alex Bennée writes: > > > While you certainly need ioeventfds to work for KVM guests it > > shouldn't be limited to that. We can run vhost-user backends for TCG > > guests and either use ioeventfds or in band signalling. > > > >

Re: [RFC PATCH for 8.0] backends/vhost-user: relax the ioeventfd check

2022-12-19 Thread Alex Bennée
Alex Bennée writes: > While you certainly need ioeventfds to work for KVM guests it > shouldn't be limited to that. We can run vhost-user backends for TCG > guests and either use ioeventfds or in band signalling. > > Maybe we should apply the same fix as b0aa77d36d (vhost-user: fix >

[RFC PATCH for 8.0] backends/vhost-user: relax the ioeventfd check

2022-12-02 Thread Alex Bennée
While you certainly need ioeventfds to work for KVM guests it shouldn't be limited to that. We can run vhost-user backends for TCG guests and either use ioeventfds or in band signalling. Maybe we should apply the same fix as b0aa77d36d (vhost-user: fix ioeventfd_enabled)? With this change I can