Re: [PATCH v5] vhost: introduce mdev based hardware backend

[Tiwei Bie]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 07:59:02AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 07:53:32PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> > This patch introduces a mdev based hardware vhost backend.
> > This backend is built on top of the same abstraction used
> > in virtio-mdev and provides a generic vhost interface for
> > userspace to accelerate the virtio devices in guest.
> > 
> > This backend is implemented as a mdev device driver on top
> > of the same mdev device ops used in virtio-mdev but using
> > a different mdev class id, and it will register the device
> > as a VFIO device for userspace to use. Userspace can setup
> > the IOMMU with the existing VFIO container/group APIs and
> > then get the device fd with the device name. After getting
> > the device fd, userspace can use vhost ioctls on top of it
> > to setup the backend.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> So at this point, looks like the only thing missing is IFC, and then all
> these patches can go in.
> But as IFC is still being worked on anyway, it makes sense to
> address the minor comments manwhile so we don't need
> patches on top.
> Right?

Yeah, of course.

Thanks,
Tiwei