Re: [RFC v3] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware vhost backend

2019-09-03 Thread Jason Wang
On 2019/9/4 上午10:48, Tiwei Bie wrote: On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 07:26:03AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 01:37:12PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote: Details about this can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/750770/ What's new in this version == T

Re: [RFC v3] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware vhost backend

2019-09-03 Thread Tiwei Bie
On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 07:26:03AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 01:37:12PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote: > > Details about this can be found here: > > > > https://lwn.net/Articles/750770/ > > > > What's new in this version > > == > > > > There are

Re: [RFC v3] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware vhost backend

2019-09-03 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 01:37:12PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote: > Details about this can be found here: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/750770/ > > What's new in this version > == > > There are three choices based on the discussion [1] in RFC v2: > > > #1. We expose a VFIO devic

Re: [RFC v3] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware vhost backend

2019-09-02 Thread Jason Wang
On 2019/9/3 上午9:56, Tiwei Bie wrote: On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:15:05PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: On 2019/8/28 下午1:37, Tiwei Bie wrote: Details about this can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/750770/ What's new in this version == There are three choices based o

Re: [RFC v3] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware vhost backend

2019-09-02 Thread Tiwei Bie
On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:15:05PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > On 2019/8/28 下午1:37, Tiwei Bie wrote: > > Details about this can be found here: > > > > https://lwn.net/Articles/750770/ > > > > What's new in this version > > == > > > > There are three choices based on the di

Re: [RFC v3] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware vhost backend

2019-09-01 Thread Jason Wang
On 2019/8/28 下午1:37, Tiwei Bie wrote: Details about this can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/750770/ What's new in this version == There are three choices based on the discussion [1] in RFC v2: #1. We expose a VFIO device, so we can reuse the VFIO container/g

[RFC v3] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware vhost backend

2019-08-27 Thread Tiwei Bie
Details about this can be found here: https://lwn.net/Articles/750770/ What's new in this version == There are three choices based on the discussion [1] in RFC v2: > #1. We expose a VFIO device, so we can reuse the VFIO container/group > based DMA API and potentially