On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 10:17:35AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/27/2014 06:06 AM, Nikolay Nikolaev wrote: > > This document describes the basic message format used by vhost-user > > for communication over a unix domain socket. The protocol is based > > on the existing ioctl interface used for the kernel version of vhost. > > > > Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.mota...@virtualopensystems.com> > > Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikol...@virtualopensystems.com> > > --- > > docs/specs/vhost-user.txt | 261 > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 261 insertions(+) > > create mode 100644 docs/specs/vhost-user.txt > > > > diff --git a/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt b/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt > > new file mode 100644 > > index 0000000..e7f43f5 > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt > > @@ -0,0 +1,261 @@ > > +Vhost-user Protocol > > Pre-existing problem throughout this directory, but it might be nice to > assert copyright and assign a license to this file. > > > > + > > +The protocol defines 2 sides of the communication, master and slave. > > Master is > > +the application that shares it's virtqueues, in our case QEMU. Slave is the > > s/it's/its/ (remember, "it's" only works if "it is" could be used in the > same context) > > > +consumer of the virtqueues. > > + > > +In the current implementation QEMU is the Master, and the Slave is > > intended to > > +be a software ethernet switch running in user space, such as Snabbswitch. > > s/ethernet/Ethernet/ > > > +Communication > > +------------- > > + > > +The protocol for vhost-user is based on the existing implementation of > > vhost > > +for the Linux Kernel. Most messages that can be send via the Unix domain > > socket > > s/send/sent/
I made these changes after applying the patch, thanks! > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org >
