Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/virtio: Add window server support

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On 02/07/2018 02:09 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 03:23:02PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Creation of shareable buffer by guest
> > > -------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > 1. Client requests virtio driver to create a buffer suitable for sharing
> > > with host (DRM_VIRTGPU_RESOURCE_CREATE)
> >
> > client or guest proxy?
> >
> > > 4. QEMU maps that buffer to the guest's address space
> > > (KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION), passes the guest PFN to the virtio driver
> >
> > That part is problematic.  The host can't simply allocate something in
> > the physical address space, because most physical address space
> > management is done by the guest.  All pci bars are mapped by the guest
> > firmware for example (or by the guest OS in case of hotplug).
> >
> > > 4. QEMU pops data+buffers from the virtqueue, looks up shmem FD for each
> > > resource, sends data + FDs to the compositor with SCM_RIGHTS
>
> If you squint hard, this sounds a bit like a use-case for vhost-user-gpu, does it not?

Can you extend on what makes you think that?

As an aside, crosvm runs the virtio-gpu device in a separate, jailed
process, among other virtual devices.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm/

Regards,

Tomeu