From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA6F7D05 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2017 03:58:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 05 Dec 2017 18:58:21 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.45,366,1508828400"; d="scan'208";a="444294" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.239.13.97]) ([10.239.13.97]) by orsmga008.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Dec 2017 18:58:20 -0800 Message-ID: <5A275D45.8050505@intel.com> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 11:00:21 +0800 From: Wei Wang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yuanhan Liu , "Yang, Zhiyong" CC: "dev@dpdk.org" , "maxime.coquelin@redhat.com" , "Tan, Jianfeng" References: <20171130094657.11470-1-zhiyong.yang@intel.com> <20171205140838.GE9111@yliu-dev> In-Reply-To: <20171205140838.GE9111@yliu-dev> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/11] net/vhostpci: A new vhostpci PMD supporting VM2VM scenario X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 02:58:23 -0000 On 12/05/2017 10:08 PM, Yuanhan Liu wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 06:59:26AM +0000, Yang, Zhiyong wrote: >> Hi all, >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Zhiyong Yang >>> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 5:47 PM >>> To: dev@dpdk.org; yliu@fridaylinux.org; maxime.coquelin@redhat.com >>> Cc: Wang, Wei W ; Tan, Jianfeng >>> >>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/11] net/vhostpci: A new vhostpci PMD >>> supporting VM2VM scenario >>> >>> Vhostpci PMD is a new type driver working in guest OS which has ability to drive >>> the vhostpci modern pci device, which is a new virtio device. >>> >>> The following linking is about vhostpci design: >>> >>> An initial device design is presented at KVM Forum'16: >>> http://www.linux-kvm.org/images/5/55/02x07A-Wei_Wang-Design_of-Vhost- >>> pci.pdf >>> The latest device design and implementation will be posted to the QEMU >>> community soon. >>> >> The latest version vhostpci device code has been posted to QEMU community. >> [PATCH v3 0/7] Vhost-pci for inter-VM communication >> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg00494.html > I didn't follow on the qemu ML. Do you know when it's likely it will > get accepted? > > --yliu Hi Yuanhan, There appear to be more people interested in this solution. My expectation is to get the fundamental part of device finalized in 3 months. For the pmd patches, I think it would be great if people can start the review from the non-device related part (e.g. the data transmission logic). Best, Wei