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From: Roman Kiryanov <rkir@google.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	Lingfeng Yang <lfy@google.com>
Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Memory sharing device
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 23:42:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOGAQeq3psE=FxnU9+T1G79Y8_9mb3H8LKXWXnzY5-kGcX6RBA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190204101316.4e3e6rj32suwdmur@sirius.home.kraxel.org>

Hi Gerd,

> virtio-gpu specifically needs that to support vulkan and opengl
> extensions for coherent buffers, which must be allocated by the host gpu
> driver.  It's WIP still.

the proposed spec says:

+Shared memory regions MUST NOT be used to control the operation
+of the device, nor to stream data; those should still be performed
+using virtqueues.

Is there a strong reason to prohibit using memory regions for control purposes?
Our long term goal is to have as few kernel drivers as possible and to move
"drivers" into userspace. If we go with the virtqueues, is there
general a purpose
device/driver to talk between our host and guest to support custom hardware
(with own blobs)? Could you please advise if we can use something else to
achieve this goal?

I saw there were registers added, could you please elaborate how new address
regions are added and associated with the host memory (and backwards)?

We allocate a region from the guest first and pass its offset to the
host to plug
real RAM into it and then we mmap this offset:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/NJvPBvvFS3S3n9mn6

Thank you.

Regards,
Roman.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-05  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-01 20:34 [virtio-dev] Memory sharing device Roman Kiryanov
2019-02-04  5:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-02-04 10:13   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-04 10:18     ` Roman Kiryanov
2019-02-05  7:42     ` Roman Kiryanov [this message]
2019-02-05 10:04       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-05 15:17         ` Frank Yang
2019-02-05 15:21           ` Frank Yang
2019-02-05 21:06         ` Roman Kiryanov
2019-02-06  7:03           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-06 15:09             ` Frank Yang
2019-02-06 15:11               ` Frank Yang
2019-02-08  7:57               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-02-08 14:46                 ` Frank Yang
2019-02-06 20:14           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-06 20:27             ` Frank Yang
2019-02-07 12:10               ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-11 14:49       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-11 15:14         ` Frank Yang
2019-02-11 15:25           ` Frank Yang
2019-02-12 13:01             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-12 13:16             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-12 13:27               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-12 16:17                 ` Frank Yang
2019-02-19  7:17                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-19 15:59                     ` Frank Yang
2019-02-20  6:51                       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-20 15:31                         ` Frank Yang
2019-02-21  6:55                           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-19  7:12             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-19 16:02               ` Frank Yang
2019-02-20  7:02                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-20 15:32                   ` Frank Yang
2019-02-21  7:29                     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-21  9:24                       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-21  9:59                         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-21 10:03                           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-22  6:15                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-22  6:42                             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-11 16:57           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-12  8:27         ` Roman Kiryanov
2019-02-12 11:25           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-12 13:47             ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-12 14:03               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-12 15:56                 ` Frank Yang
2019-02-12 16:46                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-12 17:20                     ` Frank Yang
2019-02-12 17:26                       ` Frank Yang
2019-02-12 19:06                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-13  2:50                           ` Frank Yang
2019-02-13  4:02                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-13  4:19                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-13  4:59                                 ` Frank Yang
2019-02-13 18:18                                   ` Frank Yang
2019-02-14  7:15                                     ` Frank Yang
2019-02-22 22:05                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-24 21:19                                         ` Frank Yang
2019-02-13  4:59                               ` Frank Yang
2019-02-19  7:54                       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-19 15:54                         ` Frank Yang
2019-02-20  3:46                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-20 15:24                             ` Frank Yang
2019-02-20 19:29                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-20  6:25                           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-20 15:30                             ` Frank Yang
2019-02-20 15:35                               ` Frank Yang
2019-02-21  6:44                               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-02-12 18:22                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-12 19:01                     ` Frank Yang
2019-02-12 19:15                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-02-12 20:15                         ` Frank Yang
2019-02-12 13:00           ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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