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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@nutanix.com>
Cc: "benjamin.walker@intel.com" <benjamin.walker@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8] introduce vfio-user protocol specification
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:01:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIgnLEUSqedRO9Rj@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MW2PR02MB37238C9134B09733779D0DB88B419@MW2PR02MB3723.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>

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On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 12:02:44PM +0000, Thanos Makatos wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> > Sent: 26 April 2021 16:48
> > To: Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@nutanix.com>; Peter Maydell
> > <peter.maydell@linaro.org>; Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>;
> > John G Johnson <john.g.johnson@oracle.com>;
> > benjamin.walker@intel.com; Elena Ufimtseva
> > <elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com>; jag.raman@oracle.com;
> > james.r.harris@intel.com; Swapnil Ingle <swapnil.ingle@nutanix.com>;
> > 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 <felipe@nutanix.com>;
> > xiuchun.lu@intel.com; tomassetti.andrea@gmail.com; Raphael Norwitz
> > <raphael.norwitz@nutanix.com>; changpeng.liu@intel.com;
> > dgilbert@redhat.com; Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>; Michael S . Tsirkin
> > <mst@redhat.com>; Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>; Christophe de
> > Dinechin <cdupontd@redhat.com>; Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>;
> > Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>; Kirti Wankhede
> > <kwankhede@nvidia.com>; Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>;
> > mpiszczek@ddn.com; John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v8] introduce vfio-user protocol specification
> > 
> > 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 <john.g.johnson@oracle.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@nutanix.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
> > 
> > No review yet but I wanted to agree on the next steps once the spec has
> > been reviewed.
> > 
> > One or more of you would be added to ./MAINTAINERS and handle future
> > patch review and pull requests for the spec.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Does this sound good?
> 
> Yes, of course.

Great, hope to hear from Michael and Peter too.

I will review the spec on Monday.

Stefan

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-27 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-14 11:41 [PATCH v8] introduce vfio-user protocol specification Thanos Makatos
2021-04-26 15:48 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-04-27 12:02   ` Thanos Makatos
2021-04-27 15:01     ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2021-05-04 13:51 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-05-04 14:31   ` John Levon
2021-05-05 15:51     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-06-14  9:57     ` Thanos Makatos
2021-05-05 16:19   ` John Levon
2021-05-06  8:49     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-05-07 16:10     ` Thanos Makatos
2021-06-14 10:07   ` Thanos Makatos
2021-05-10 16:57 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-05-10 22:25   ` John Levon
2021-05-11 10:09     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-05-11 10:43       ` John Levon
2021-05-11 15:40         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-05-12  5:08     ` John Johnson
2021-05-19 21:08 ` Alex Williamson
2021-05-19 22:38   ` John Levon
2021-06-14  9:47     ` Thanos Makatos

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