On 13-10-23, 20:02, Hanna Czenczek wrote: > On 10.10.23 16:35, Alex Bennée wrote: > > I was going to say there is also the rust-vmm vhost-user-master crates > > which we've imported: > > > > https://github.com/vireshk/vhost > > > > for the Xen Vhost Frontend: > > > > https://github.com/vireshk/xen-vhost-frontend > > > > but I can't actually see any handling for GET/SET_STATUS at all which > > makes me wonder how we actually work. Viresh? > > As far as I know the only back-end implementation of F_STATUS is in DPDK. > As I said, if anyone else implemented it right now, that would be dangerous, > because qemu doesn’t adhere to the virtio protocol when it comes to the > status byte.
Yeah, none of the Rust based Virtio backends enable `STATUS` in `VhostUserProtocolFeatures` and so these messages are never exchanged. The generic Rust code for the backends, doesn't even implement them. Not sure if they should or not. -- viresh
