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Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , John Levon , Kirti Wankhede , Gerd Hoffmann , "tina.zhang@intel.com" , "jag.raman@oracle.com" , "james.r.harris@intel.com" , John Levon , Elena Ufimtseva , "Kanth.Ghatraju@oracle.com" , Felipe Franciosi , "marcandre.lureau@redhat.com" , Christophe de Dinechin , Yan Zhao , "konrad.wilk@oracle.com" , "yuvalkashtan@gmail.com" , "dgilbert@redhat.com" , "ismael@linux.com" , "changpeng.liu@intel.com" , "tomassetti.andrea@gmail.com" , "mpiszczek@ddn.com" , Cornelia Huck , "alex.williamson@redhat.com" , Raphael Norwitz , "xiuchun.lu@intel.com" , Paolo Bonzini Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Hajnoczi > Sent: 26 April 2021 16:48 > To: Thanos Makatos ; Peter Maydell > ; Michael S. Tsirkin > Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; John Levon ; > John G Johnson ; > benjamin.walker@intel.com; Elena Ufimtseva > ; jag.raman@oracle.com; > james.r.harris@intel.com; Swapnil Ingle ; > konrad.wilk@oracle.com; alex.williamson@redhat.com; > yuvalkashtan@gmail.com; tina.zhang@intel.com; > marcandre.lureau@redhat.com; ismael@linux.com; > Kanth.Ghatraju@oracle.com; Felipe Franciosi ; > xiuchun.lu@intel.com; tomassetti.andrea@gmail.com; Raphael Norwitz > ; changpeng.liu@intel.com; > dgilbert@redhat.com; Yan Zhao ; Michael S . Tsirkin > ; Gerd Hoffmann ; Christophe de > Dinechin ; Jason Wang ; > Cornelia Huck ; Kirti Wankhede > ; Paolo Bonzini ; > mpiszczek@ddn.com; John Levon > Subject: Re: [PATCH v8] introduce vfio-user protocol specification >=20 > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 04:41:22AM -0700, Thanos Makatos wrote: > > This patch introduces the vfio-user protocol specification (formerly > > known as VFIO-over-socket), which is designed to allow devices to be > > emulated outside QEMU, in a separate process. vfio-user reuses the > > existing VFIO defines, structs and concepts. > > > > It has been earlier discussed as an RFC in: > > "RFC: use VFIO over a UNIX domain socket to implement device offloading= " > > > > Signed-off-by: John G Johnson > > Signed-off-by: Thanos Makatos > > Signed-off-by: John Levon >=20 > No review yet but I wanted to agree on the next steps once the spec has > been reviewed. >=20 > One or more of you would be added to ./MAINTAINERS and handle future > patch review and pull requests for the spec. >=20 > The spec will be unstable/experimental at least until QEMU vfio-user > implementation has landed. Otherwise it's hard to know whether the > protocol really works. >=20 > Does this sound good? Yes, of course. >=20 > Stefan