From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@nutanix.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] introduce vfio-user protocol specification
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:37:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200929103743.GB181609@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MW2PR02MB37232E78343B164C2405AC248B350@MW2PR02MB3723.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 09:58:37AM +0000, Thanos Makatos wrote:
> > It should be accompanied by a test in tests/. PCI-level testing APIS for
> > BARs, configuration space, interrupts, etc are available in
> > tests/qtest/libqos/pci.h. The test case needs to include a vfio-user
> > device backend interact with QEMU's vfio-user-pci implementation.
>
> We plan to use a libmuser-based backend for testing. This, I suppose, will
> make libmuser a dependency of QEMU (either as a submodule or as a library),
> which for now can be disabled in the default configuration. Is this acceptable?
If there are no other dependencies and libmuser supports all host
operating systems that QEMU's -device vfio-user supports, then I think
it's a good idea to use libmuser for at least one in-tree test in QEMU.
> > Also please let us know who is working on what so additional people can
> > get involved in areas that need work!
>
> Swapnil and I will be working on libmuser and the test in QEMU, John and
> the mp-qemu folks will be working on the patches for implementing
> --device vfio-user-pci.
Great!
John: Will mpqemu use libmuser to implement the remote PCI host
controller?
Stefan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-29 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-17 11:20 [PATCH v3] introduce VFIO-over-socket protocol specificaion Thanos Makatos
2020-07-21 16:33 ` Nikos Dragazis
2020-07-22 11:43 ` Thanos Makatos
2020-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v4] introduce vfio-user protocol specification Thanos Makatos
2020-09-24 8:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-09-24 9:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-28 9:58 ` Thanos Makatos
2020-09-29 10:37 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2020-09-29 16:21 ` John G Johnson
2020-09-30 14:24 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-10-02 10:14 ` Felipe Franciosi
2020-10-13 9:30 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-10-15 13:36 ` Felipe Franciosi
2020-10-30 19:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-10-13 9:42 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-09-29 10:41 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-10-28 16:10 ` [PATCH v5] " Thanos Makatos
2020-10-28 16:41 ` Thanos Makatos
2020-10-30 17:03 ` John Levon
2020-11-02 11:29 ` Thanos Makatos
2020-11-02 11:41 ` John Levon
2020-11-02 11:51 ` Thanos Makatos
2020-11-06 1:50 ` John G Johnson
2020-11-07 12:26 ` John Levon
2020-11-09 12:07 ` Thanos Makatos
2020-11-09 9:20 ` Thanos Makatos
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