Hi On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 12:44 PM Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@web.de> wrote:
> >> Of course, I'm careful with investing much time into expanding the > >> existing, for Jailhouse possibly sufficient design if there no real > >> interest in continuing the ivshmem support in QEMU - because of > >> vhost-pci or other reasons. But if that interest exists, it would be > >> beneficial for us to have QEMU supporting a compatible version and using > >> the same guest drivers. Then I would start looking into concrete patches > >> for it as well. > > > > Interest is difficult for me to gauge, not least because alternatives > > are still being worked on. > > I'm considering to suggest this as GSoC project now. > It's better for a student and for the community if the work get accepted in the end. So, I think that could be an intersting GSoC (implementing your ivshmem 2 proposal). However, if the qemu community isn't ready to accept a new ivshmem, and would rather have vhost-pci based solution, I would suggest a different project (hopefully Wei Wang can help define it and mentor): work on a vhost-pci using dedicated shared PCI BARs (and kernel support to avoid extra copy - if I understand the extra copy situation correctly). -- Marc-André Lureau
