* Greg Kurz (gr...@kaod.org) wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:31:44 +0000
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilb...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com>
> >
> > Hi,
> > This is the first RFC for the QEMU side of 'virtio-fs';
> > a new mechanism for mounting host directories into the guest
> > in a fast, consistent and secure manner. Our primary use
> > case is kata containers, but it should be usable in other scenarios
> > as well.
> >
> > There are corresponding patches being posted to Linux kernel,
> > libfuse and kata lists.
> >
> > For a fuller design description, and benchmark numbers, please see
> > Vivek's posting of the kernel set here:
> >
> > https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=154446243024251&w=2
> >
> > We've got a small website with instructions on how to use it, here:
> >
> > https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/
> >
> > and all the code is available on gitlab at:
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs
> >
>
> Hi !
>
> This looks like a very promising replacement for virtio-9p, at
> least with better chances of reaching a production quality level.
>
> Not sure I'll have enough time to step in, but please Cc me on
> future posts. As virtio-9p maintainer, I'll be happy to help if
> I can. Also I'll be happy to get rid of the fsdev proxy backend
> at some point (which I already wanted to replace with a vhost
> user based solution :-) ).
Thanks! We'll try and remember to keep you in the loop.
If there are any gotchas that you tripped over in 9p that we should
watch out for then please give us a prod.
Dave
Dave
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Greg
>
> > QEMU's changes
> > --------------
> >
> > The QEMU changes are pretty small;
> >
> > There's a new vhost-user device, which is used to carry a stream of
> > FUSE messages to an external daemon that actually performs
> > all the file IO. The FUSE daemon is an external process in order to
> > achieve better isolation for security and resource control (e.g. number
> > of file descriptors) and also because it's cleaner than trying to
> > integrate libfuse into QEMU.
> >
> > This device has an extra BAR that contains (up to) 3 regions:
> >
> > a) a DAX mapping range ('the cache') - into which QEMU mmap's
> > files on behalf of the external daemon; those files are
> > then directly mapped by the guest in a way similar to a DAX
> > backed file system; one advantage of this is that multiple
> > guests all accessing the same files should all be sharing
> > those pages of host cache.
> >
> > b) An experimental set of mappings for use by a metadata versioning
> > daemon; this mapping is shared between multiple guests and
> > the daemon, but only contains a set of version counters that
> > allow a guest to quickly tell if its metadata is stale.
> >
> > TODO
> > ----
> >
> > This is the first RFC, we know we have a bunch of things to clear up:
> >
> > a) The virtio device specificiation is still in flux and is expected
> > to change
> >
> > b) We'd like to find ways of reducing the map/unmap latency for DAX
> >
> > c) The metadata versioning scheme needs to settle out.
> >
> > d) mmap'ing host files has some interesting side effects; for example
> > if the file gets truncated by the host and then the guest accesses
> > the mapping, KVM can fail the guest hard.
> >
> > Dr. David Alan Gilbert (6):
> > virtio: Add shared memory capability
> > virtio-fs: Add cache BAR
> > virtio-fs: Add vhost-user slave commands for mapping
> > virtio-fs: Fill in slave commands for mapping
> > virtio-fs: Allow mapping of meta data version table
> > virtio-fs: Allow mapping of journal
> >
> > Stefan Hajnoczi (1):
> > virtio: add vhost-user-fs-pci device
> >
> > configure | 10 +
> > contrib/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.h | 3 +
> > docs/interop/vhost-user.txt | 35 ++
> > hw/virtio/Makefile.objs | 1 +
> > hw/virtio/vhost-user-fs.c | 517 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > hw/virtio/vhost-user.c | 16 +
> > hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c | 115 +++++
> > hw/virtio/virtio-pci.h | 19 +
> > include/hw/pci/pci.h | 1 +
> > include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-fs.h | 79 +++
> > include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_fs.h | 48 ++
> > include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_ids.h | 1 +
> > include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_pci.h | 9 +
> > 13 files changed, 854 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 hw/virtio/vhost-user-fs.c
> > create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-fs.h
> > create mode 100644 include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_fs.h
> >
>
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
